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OUR HANDS ARE THERE FOR A REASON
The theme of Slovene Photographic Experience 2009 was arts
and crafts. Crafts are activities connected to different parts of
cultural heritage, namely material, immaterial and live heritage.
They are strongly connected to the everyday life of the past as
well as the present and represent an important part of cultural
heritage of a certain environment.
Researching arts and crafts is very interesting since we can
explore different areas, such as how the products are made,
where does material come from, what are the products used
for, how products vary from region to region, how the making
of the product developed and how the use may have changed
over time. All this is bringing attention to lost knowledge and it
ensures preservation of the crafts in the future.
We consider as crafts all those which have been preserved,
revived and also newly created, such as pottery, wickerwork,
weaving, blacksmith, carpentry, shoemaking, ropery, candlemaking
and many others. In Slovenia there is a wide variety of
crafts and they differ from one region to another in the materials
used and the range of certain craft in a particular region.
The photographs entered in this year’s Photographic Experience
show the variety of arts and crafts in Slovenia and represent an
important document of all the activities still alive among the
craftsmen. |
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