Zuzana Gogova
LOVE MOVES MOUNTAINS
Love moves mountains is a Slovak proverb referring to the power of love. This personal project is about life's circumstances which influenced my grandmother, my mother and also me in a certain way and at the same time how we coped with the presence of love or its absence. Love is a key in this project. It was either there or not or simply did not find the right way to the life. Starting this project created space to ask direct questions both my mum and my grandma who for instance shared very taboo topic of abortion especially for her old generation. Grandma hardly talk about it with her family but she described the feelings after going through it and feelings towards her husband afterward who did not stop her in a such decision what makes me inquire the role of the man in a traditional rural Slovakia, the role as a husband, lover or father.
Zuzana Gogova
Freelance photographer born in Slovakia (1990), traveling to the places and interested in a indepht projects. My academic background is in a social studies yet I have been photographing from the moment I started to study at university about 7 years ago as a way of exploration and creating a visual memory. I have decided to dedicate my time and energy primarily to photography while researching for my master thesis in a rural Serbia and writing about a gift economy. Allowing to think about myself as a photographer opened so many more ways to the people for me. Currently I am most drawn to the theme of a different aspects influencing a friendships in crisis (war, refugee crisis, environmental crisis).