Una terra Sacra

• Prize
  Bronze in Book/Other
• Photographer
  Margrieta Jeltema, Italy
• Website
  https://www.margrij.com
• Instagram
  @margrije

The rural people in Tuscia (Italy), work their land as they always did; they tend the olive trees, they care for their chickens,their sheep and for each other.
All small gestures reflect an ancient culture.
The countryside is full of ancient mysteries. The volcanic lake draws the stars close so everyone can touch them.
Etruscan souls sleep in the vine yards.
Their songs can be heard at night, when the nightingales sing between the cypress trees.
There is a resonance between this and other worlds.
A memory of eternal ideas persists and keeps the land in it’s embrace. It’s kiss a sacred seal.

Margrieta was born under Northern skies, in the Netherlands.
Her work embraces poetry, sculpture, but her main creative outlet is photography since her father showed her how to print in his self made darkroom in the attic of their house.
She uses analogue cameras (from 35mm to whole plate).

She makes silver-gelatin (contact) prints, albumen prints and various experimental prints, as well as hand-colored ones.

She lives and works in Bolsena (Tuscia), Italy

Awards Her books are available at “DagDroomBoek editions”.
https://www.margrij.com/dagdroomboek-editions