Existential Studies
The images are of Lena Durante Rodriguez from her personal photo album. Lena lost her child to Menengitis and her husband to Tuberculosis. When I met Lena on the subway she lived in public housing up on 169th Street in the South Bronx with her sister Mary.
Mother and Child
Fragment of poem by Gertrude Kolmar
Fragment of poem by Gertrude Kolmar
Vintage Vernacular Photographs
2004