RayKo Photo Center presents
City of Children
photography by Monika Merva
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- Event has passed (Fri Nov 6, 2009 - Sat Dec 12, 2009)
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- Galleries, Photography
Description
The situations in these pictures seem common: a quiet moment alone, teenage boys lounging, and laughing with a friend. The environments are familiar: a schoolyard, a kitchen, and a teenager’s bedroom. This is the everyday at the Karloyi Istvan Gyermekkozpont, a government housing facility for children seeking help from their dysfunctional and poverty stricken families. Gyermekkozpont is it’s own community. The children commute into the city to attend school. At the end of the day they return “home,” where adults supervise them, have chores, are made to do their homework, given allowance and have curfews. They call this place “The City of Children.”Monika Merva has been photographing the City of Children in Fot, Hungary for the past seven years. Bold, beautiful, challenging color portraits of children older than their years.
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