person:jana romanova

Il y a un an, le 16 mars 2014, un référendum rattachait la Crimée à la Russie. L’été suivant, Jana Romanova y séjournait avec l’intention de photographier Sébastopol. Son projet, « Immerse (Sevastopol) », « consistait à comprendre comment l’espace, l’architecture d’une ville prennent corps chez ses habitants qui à leur tour deviennent une partie de la ville ».
▻http://www.mediapart.fr/portfolios/faire-corps-avec-sebastopol

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Jana Romanova photographs sleeping pregnant couples in her series, “Waiting.”

▻http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/09/16/jana_romanova_photographs_sleeping_pregnant_couples_in_her_series_waiting.htm

Romanova didn’t want the couples to pose, so she had to figure out ways of getting the photos while the couples were still asleep. “When it was possible I stayed with the couple at their apartment at night to make a picture at around 5-6 a.m., mostly on weekends, when people want to sleep and don’t really need to wake up for work,” Romanova said. “When it was not possible, I tried to come around 5 a.m., waited in the kitchen while they were asleep, and then took the picture.”

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Eventually, Romanova wanted to expand the scope of her project, so she started looking for more subjects online. She wrote hundreds of emails to pregnant women asking if they would like to be included in the project. It took her two years to find the 40 couples for the project—one for each week of pregnancy.

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