June 29, 2008 - 7:11 pm - Posted by Galina
Young female beggar in one of Vienna streets listening to arguments of older woman who suddenly stopped to express her opinion on beggary.
For the first time in my life, I was brought at the place against my will and kept there shut. I felt shaken and thought it must be mistake and soon they would [...]
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June 23, 2008 - 10:00 pm - Posted by Galina
One of manifestations in Vienna. The man with the dog has inscription at his shirt: “Nothing moves forward without Haider”
According to my private statistics J�rg Haider is the most frequent Google search term after words sex and nudity that direct visitors to my website.
When you live in the western country and bring reminiscences about [...]
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June 2, 2008 - 11:00 am - Posted by Galina
I had not posted for my blog for a long time. It was emotional zigzag.
Zigzags appear in my life as result of failures or psychological traumas, when shift of perception makes me look at my life from another perspective.
Contemplating my professional future, I see my aspirations are mostly inapplicable in Austria. My prospects would be [...]
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May 2, 2008 - 9:42 am - Posted by Galina
May Demo
It was traditional the 1 May demo and Day of the Work in Vienna yesterday, and to express their solidarity with social-democratic, communist and national minorities movements in the country thousands of people marched along streets of the city toward Parliament and City council, where chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, mayor Michael Hupl, trades-union leader [...]
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April 19, 2008 - 12:08 pm - Posted by Galina
It was sunny and clear autumn day with slight chill in the air.
I was at the main square of Graz observing flock of pigeons in front of city council with nobody around me except of two men on ecstasy who just bought their supply and old drunkard stretching on bank in booze doze.
It was my [...]
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April 8, 2008 - 9:32 pm - Posted by Galina
It was gloomy morning, and feeling worthless, I wept for three hours.
I always die during such paroxysms of desperation. But life always comes back to me. It comes and fills the body with warmth. Looking at the middle-aged woman with gray hair and two swollen rabbit eyes in the mirror I made a few telephone [...]
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April 4, 2008 - 7:27 am - Posted by Galina
Dear Mr. Gusenbauer!
Excuse me for breaking rules and sending you photo with a piece of nudity, but I do not see other way to attract your attention to the point.
I am freelance photographer and journalist, and once you posed for me and other photographers during election campaign in Graz in autumn of 2006. Unfortunately, [...]
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March 19, 2008 - 11:06 pm - Posted by Galina
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Our attachments is the source of our problems. You are attached when you think your life would be impossible without what [...]
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March 5, 2008 - 10:15 pm - Posted by Galina
Emigration creates stressful limit-situations when person loses his identification:
work, friends, relatives, property, language, life and career prospects
Can you stand this collapse of identifications?
- Being 47, I must run around in Vienna as homeless dog looking for institutions
who would approve what I am doing
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February 23, 2008 - 10:44 am - Posted by Galina
I become more and more dissatisfied with possibilities Nikon D200 provides fo shooting indoors.
Sometimes I feel completely desperate looking through dark and unclear shots I made in cafe. From one side big professional camera can not suit spy and voyeuristic tendencies I have, from the other side small camera compromises quality especially in poor [...]
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November 25, 2007 - 7:57 pm - Posted by Galina
If you start doing anything seriously, soon you will realize that problems of any contemporary occupation arise mostly at promotion level.
If you cannot market yourself, you can do nothing. In such arts, as cinematography and photography, the more gifted you are the less chances you have to maneuver smoothly
through troublesome process of advertising.
Artistic talent is [...]
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November 20, 2007 - 9:24 pm - Posted by Galina
Bang at the door came after midnight. Since it was bars area, I reached for rolling pin and
then shut open the door.
Russian woman Natasha stood there together with her husband - short man with disproportional big hands. Natasha looked as child who broke vase playing football in living room and tried to postpone inexorable penalty [...]
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