Photographer Hajdu Tamas Finds Humor in Small-Town Romania – Feature Shoot

Photographer Hajdu Tamas Finds Humor in Small-Town Romania – Feature Shoot

Humor has a strange place in photography. So often a humorous photograph undermines the subject matter or the medium itself and leaves the image feeling like a ploy for cheap…

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/12/photographer-hajdu-tamas-finds-humor-in-small-town-romania/

Hajdu Tamas is the kind of photographer who is not afraid to point his camera at the absurdity of life, even when that life is hard. His photographs of the minutia in small-town Romania present delightful juxtapositions of the old ways of doing things and the new direction in which its residents are trying to move. A high dive towers above an old cemetery, a cow pokes it head out of someone’s backyard bushes with apartment towers visible behind it.