Jana Romanova discovered her family through her Grandma’s letters

By Tom Seymour

When Jana Romanova travels to photography festivals to share her series Waiting, she carries business cards with a quote from anonymous critics who have commented on her work online.

Each line of spoken word relates to her portrait series of young Russians who were expecting their first child, captured from overhead as they were sleeping. Most are rather uncomplimentary. “I find these pictures to be depressing, voyeuristic and vulgar,” reads one. “They make me never want to get married.”

About 18 months after she first posted Waiting to her website, Romanova saw the pictures go viral. Slate magazine published several images on …read more

Via: BJP