ANDY FREEBERG: THE CURONIAN SPIT, 2016
Some of my ancestors lived in Lithuania until the late 19th century, before they emigrated to the United States. In 2016 I visited this beach on the Baltic Sea near Klaipėda.
I drove down with my Finnish wife, via the ferry from Helsinki. On that cloudless day I was imagining my great-great-grandfather walking and swimming in that same place on the Curonian Spit, which was part of Russia and Germany at the time he was living there. It probably wasn’t a nude beach then.
Growing up in America I almost never heard this history of my family and it’s only recently, now that I’m spending part of the year living in Finland, I’ve become more interested in discovering these roots.
I drove down with my Finnish wife, via the ferry from Helsinki. On that cloudless day I was imagining my great-great-grandfather walking and swimming in that same place on the Curonian Spit, which was part of Russia and Germany at the time he was living there. It probably wasn’t a nude beach then.
Growing up in America I almost never heard this history of my family and it’s only recently, now that I’m spending part of the year living in Finland, I’ve become more interested in discovering these roots.
ANDY FREEBERG
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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ANDY FREEBERG began his career as a photojournalist and magazine photographer in New York City. He now devotes his time to his own fine art projects, which have been produced as books and exhibited as prints.
He currently has an exhibition through the summer of 2022 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland titled Where Art Thou. Freeberg’s work is in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His photographs have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Guardian. He lives most of the year in Northern California and part of the year in Helsinki. https://www.andyfreeberg.com/ |