The Taste of Tears

• Photographer
  Margrieta Jeltema
• Technical Info
  Taken Of 35mm And Medium Fomat Film, Black And White
• Photo Date
  2017

On an island far south in the Mediterranean grow olive trees that are 2000 and even 3000 years old. The breath of the sea is salty full of tears, the summers are hot and scorching with fire when the desert winds blow. We are the grains of sand, the salty tears.

Margrieta was born under Northern skies, in the Netherlands. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Italy, Algeria, the Caribbean, Chile, Portugal and Romania. During her biology studies with a major in philosophy at Wageningen (the Netherlands), Margrieta started with a variety of studies in bronze casting, painting, etching and ceramics. Her work embraces poetry, sculpture, but her main creative outlet is photography.