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VLADIMIR LINDER'S
PHOTO EXHIBIT AT
FOLKLORE FESTIVAL
UNDER KRÁĽOVÁ HOĽA
IN LIPTOVSKÁ TEPLIČKA 2000
OPENED ON
AUGUST 5, 2000
SOUL SEARCHING
IN LIPTOVSKÁ TEPLIČKA
Slovak Heritage Live II
PAGE TWO
I have started my life's
journey as 19 year old with leaving
Slovakia in 1969 and immigrating to Canada. I had realized then that in my lifetime it
would never be possible to return. Until 1986 I wasn't interested in Slovak Folklore
or Slovak Cultural Heritage and I didn't even
know anything about it. At world
exposition EXPO 86 in Vancouver, during the first performance of Slovak folklore group
Lúčnica, while hearing three notes played by their prima Robert Pukár, something inside me has awaken.
I stayed close to Lúčnica during their
two-week stay at Expo 86 and I didn't leave them. I learned from them about
the folk festivals in Slovakia. With this there was sudden awakening inside me of
something unknown, undreamed of love towards Slovak folklore of our grandparents, great
grandparents but also their descendants.
All this I wanted to intercede with my photographs also from
Liptovská Teplička and
I hope that you will feel not only my feelings, but the magic of Liptovská
Teplička folklore and scenery
will fill you with enthusiasm.
From my heart, Yours
Vladimir Linder
I first visited Liptovská Teplička in fall of
1997 not knowing it is a place of the best folklore festival in Slovakia and I
felled in love with the place and it's beauty and peacefulness. Then in summer
1997 I learned from my friend and great folklorist Dr. Miroslav Kapasný from Vaec that there is a festival in
Liptovská Teplička at the end of July. Since
then I have been to all festivals and I always go to Liptovska Teplička during
my frequent trips to Slovakia as I really fell at home there.
VLADIMIR LINDER
photographer, journalist, video
producer,
valuable person
Vladimir Linder was born in Banská Bystrica September 8, 1949. His
parents were Anna Linder nee Hering from Spiská Sobota and Jozef Linder from
Zvolen. Father was a businessman. After nationalization in 1949, shortly after
Vladimir’s birth they were forced to move from Zvolen. Few months they lived in
Hronsek near by and then they moved to Bratislava, where Vladimir grew up. At the age of
12, Vladimir became an orphan. His father passed away in October 1961 from heart attack.
His mother started working and Vladimir went for first time to eat in the school
cafeteria and he learn very fast to love, him until then hated, specialties of the Slovak
cuisine such as squash sauce with dill and spinach sauce.
He held his first summer job in summer of 1962 as 13 year old in the
Communal Service Company of Bratislava, where his father worked for many years before his
death. From his first pay he bought himself a bike and then he went hitch hiking around
Czechoslovakia, visiting castles and manor houses that were open to public. He repeated
the summer jobs and hitch hiking trips until finishing grade nine. He started to study at
trade secondary school for electrical technology in Bratislava for the next four years
until his graduation.
During these studies he started taking pictures, when his mother
brought him from her vacation in Moscow and Leningrad a Smena still camera. He was taking
pictures every day and also took his camera on his first trip abroad hitch hiking to
Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia in 1967.
In spring of 1968, before his graduation he applied to study in Prague
at the Political University to study diplomacy, where even through his wild past and
without any connections, he was accepted.
All
photographs are for sale
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The above article and photographs may not be copied, reproduced,
republished, or redistributed by any means including electronic, without
the express written permission of Vladimir
Linder. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2000 Vladimir
Linder
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