These pictures were taken during the International Summer School of Photography (issp.lv) in Latvia summer 2009. I had the pleasure of meeting an amazing family who let me photograph them at their most playful. Laryssa, the grandmother, came from Belarus to Latvia during the cold war and settled in Ludza. Laryssa picked me berries, posed in trees and threw hay bails while her grandson Deniss dressed up as gorilla.

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