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John is helping a satisfied customer
carry a purchased photograph to her car
Photograph ©Lance Munn
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Mr.
Galbo's affinity for photographing indigenous cultures stems
from his cultural heritage (4 grandparents who emigrated from
Italy to America at the turn of the 20th Century) and, his
academic training and university teaching experiences as a
Cultural Anthropologist-Sociologist.
Learning, at the very least, a modicum of the native language
and the norms and mores of the culture, he uses
participant-observation to assimilate into the society.
The imagery, digitally recorded, speaks to our yearning to
visualize the stories bequeathed to us by our grandmothers.
Looking at John's photographs, we can feel the reverie of
scenes that trumpet "ways of life" revered for their
simplicity, honesty, and beauty. Delightful are the villages
so "organic" that they seem to have sprouted directly from the
rich soil beneath them.
John's abundance of anecdotal stories (each photograph has at
least one), are tinged with the "cultural relativism" that has
been his lifelong commitment. He is a living reminder that all
cultures are equals in this universe and beyond.
Je vous
embrasse,
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