Posts tagged boys
Young Farmer
I took this picture this past summer at a small tractor and steam engine show in Pennsylvania. While a young amish boy was maintaining my dad’s engine alone, I asked him if I could take his picture. He jumped at the chance and I ended up capturing an image of the oldest 8 year old I’ve ever met.
Vintage PA postcard
Timm Rautert. From his book No Photographing, a project on Amish communities in Pennsylvania, from 1974.
Young Sikh boys wearing traditional dress and turbans for the Sikh New Year festival of Vaisakhi, annually celebrated with a carnival in Birmingham — Photograph: Jaskirt Dhaliwal
I didn’t take this cause I was like “ooh look, mennonite boys!” rather they’re a gang of well dressed, slick kids. Drivers cap and suspenders, classy little buggers.
Sidenote: my girlfriend actually took it.
In Kyrgystan, at the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains bordering China, a small settlement of Mennonites holds out. Centuries ago, their forefathers left the Netherlands and Germany in all directions. They fled from worldliness and went looking for better pastures to start anew a life according to their strict interpretation of the bible. A few pioneering families who went all the way to Central Asia found themselves trapped when the borders of the emerging Soviet Union got drawn. Despite harsh times, their descendants managed to preserve a good part of their culture, independence and religious beliefs.
Wim Klerkx, 1996-1997.
