{"id":18585,"date":"2019-11-04T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2021-04-17T20:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:40:38","slug":"washington-post-life-death-and-preserving-tradition-on-an-estonian-island-of-only-a-few-hundred-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/washington-post-life-death-and-preserving-tradition-on-an-estonian-island-of-only-a-few-hundred-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, death and preserving tradition on an Estonian island of only a few hundred people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photographer Jeremie Jung\u2019s \u201cKihnu, the Estonian Isle of Traditions\u201d is a photo documentary project about an island inhabited by only 500 people in the Baltic Sea. It is a place where the people embrace tradition, including wearing traditional clothing, speaking the local dialect and teaching their children folk traditions in school. But it is also a place that embraces modern life.<\/strong><\/p><p>Jung photographed the island on several occasions and over several years. Mingling slowly with the population, he visited in spring, late summer and autumn of 2013, then again in the summer of 2014, Christmas of 2017 and, finally, in May 2019.<\/p><p>Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/photography\/2019\/11\/01\/life-death-preserving-tradition-an-estonian-island-only-few-hundred-people\/?fbclid=IwAR3O5BwO4xHE187DBjR2_AyiYOPW_mdLHd-5pLj2mtsa_v7wnr6CWJzFyjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> here<\/a> (Kenneth Dickerman and Jeremie Jung, Washington Post, 01.11.2019<span class=\"author-timestamp\">)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Jeremie Jung\u2019s \u201cKihnu, the Estonian Isle of Traditions\u201d is a photo documentary project about an island inhabited by only 500 people in the Baltic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1096],"tags":[3287,3217,3214],"class_list":["post-18585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2019-en","tag-estonians-en","tag-tradition-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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