Over a period of six years Jens Olof Lasthein has travelled along the EU\u2019s eastern border from the White Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the South photographing everyday life. The people here exist between two worlds, in transit between two phases, where nothing is decided and the aim is rather uncertain. They haven\u2019t quite left the past, but nor have they fully entered the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain almost 20 years ago, the countries of the former eastern bloc have experienced a major transition \u2013 and still are. During this period, a new demarcation line has developed, identical to the EU\u2019s eastern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition is a result of Jens Olof Lasthein\u2019s extensive project undertaken in the period 2001 \u2013 2007. His photographs show landscapes and people from Transylvania, Russia, Moldovia, Ukraine and Belorussia \u2013 in the border region between east and west in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
White Sea Black Sea is about borders: an outer, physical border and an inner, invisible one that divides people. The everyday world forms our inner border, between that which we recognise and that which we don\u2019t understand. Has the world really becoming smaller, as we keep reminding ourselves, or are the borders for what we see as part of ourselves continuing in tighter circles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lasthein\u2019s visual journey through the borderland between east and west in Europe is in all its simplicity an attempt to soften up borders \u2013 the photographer\u2019s and perhaps also those of others.<\/p>\n\n\n
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