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Editie bilingva: romana-engleza.Hometown este un studiu vizual despre migratie, identitate, dor de casa si despre ce se intampla cu locurile in care ai crescut in timp ce iti traiesti viata in alta parte. Cartea in sine contine cicatrici lasate de distanta, ea fiind gandita pe Skype, intre patru capitale Europene. Hometown-uri mici si depopulate. <Exista un strat fin de praf, ca o patina a timpului, pe care nu poti sa-l stergi de pe imaginile astea. Un caine, o femeie batrana, una tanara, un gard, un prieten bun, lumina de la capatul unei strazi - toate iti bucura dialectic privirea. Aici ai crescut si tu?> (Extrase din post-fata scrisa de Jasmina Al-Qaisi) Over borders, home is Eastern Europe. Waves of red-yellow-blue, the country of whose nostalgia is layered, of whose millennials have hyper-fast internet, plenty of acquaintances over borders and firm plans to go abroad as well. Home is one of those places where migration is a choice, but not a privilege. And Hometowns, the tiny cities, once diamonds of a peculiar Socialism, suffer now from depopulation or are falling apart sooner than authorities come to their rescue. In Hometowns, sooner or later as passengers, people return. Hometown is a visual research about migration, identity, homesickness, and about what happens to the places where we grew up while we make a life someplace else. The book itself beholds scars of distance being assembled mostly on Skype, between 4 European capitals. This is the visual story of the Rom