Video: All in twos: 20 photos from the International Gemini Festival 2017
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Every year on the first full weekend of August, Twinsburg, which can be roughly translated as "Gemini City", hosts the Gemini Festival. This holiday attracts thousands of twins and twins from all over the world. This year, participants were asked to reflect their national roots in their costumes. Photos from this action are in our review.
Twinsburg Twins Days Festival began in 1976 and has grown in popularity every year since then. At first, only twins from Ohio itself came to this holiday, then from all over the country, and now here you can meet participants from literally all over the world.
For several years now, the constant photographer of this festival is Tick Zaudem (Teake Zuidema). In his photographs, we can see the 70-year-old sisters Arnet and Anet Avery, whose ancestors were African Americans, Scots, Irish, and even Cherokee Indians. Other couples dressed in national costumes of Greece, Switzerland, Holland, Canada.
However, no one obliged the twins to dress in national costumes, so many showed creativity and dressed "based on" - someone chose the uniform of police officers, someone - local "elves", and someone tried to find exactly that symbol of their country, which is closest to them.
The photographer himself has only recently become a US citizen. "At the Gemini festival you can see both Americans and newcomers, you can meet people of different races, different religions, they have different goals in life and different stories of their families. It was quite interesting for me to observe how all these people, despite such differences, do not mind changing into clothes that are unusual for them and posing for the camera, "says Tik Zaudema.
Kalani and Jarani are also twins, but no one believes them, because not only were the sisters born different from each other, they were born with different skin colors!
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