I’ve followed Vova Zinger’s photo blog since before the pandemic, so far back I can’t remember the first time I visited his blog. For years, especially during the pandemic, Vova was faithfully posting a photo every day, and they were, without exception, wonderful to behold. Then in early November 2023 he posted this last photo and stopped.
Vova always took the time to reply to comments people left on his posts. He was just a very nice person. But he even began to stop answering posts. His last two posts on that last photo were ominous:
28 Nov — There are other less pleasant reasons for this, but I will try to resume posting again. Sorry.
4 Dec — Thank you very much. I hope to be back with more posts.
Then no more. Finally, in April of this year, came a post from another follower saying that he believed that Vova had “passed away earlier this year.”
Vova had been posting on his blog since August 2007, or a good 17 years. Only death stopped him from continuing on.
I find his last photo oddly compelling. The fence starts in the foreground and goes off into the distance, over a hill to some unknown destination. What lies over that hill at the end of that fence if we could but somehow follow it? Maybe Vova was trying to tell us all something about a journey he was destined to take, one that we couldn’t follow him. I miss his presence, even if it was just through the photos in his blog.
Links
Remembering Vova Zinger — https://thedeepeningground.com/2024/02/08/remembering-vova-zinger-eulogy-photography-boston-nature-memory-art-poetry-poem/
Vladimir Zinger Obituary — https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ma/brookline/vladimir-zinger-17501913
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