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13/05/2011 - Local newspaper "Le Courrier des Yvelines" talks about Margot Berg's project 'A look at Latvia'
Jerome Dupouy, a journalist for the local newspaper "Le Courrier des Yvelines" asked me for an interview. The roles were reversed: after I interviewed people to transcribe their stories,he asked me to tell mine. Why Latvia, what is the project, the reporting, was I afraid to travel alone, how I traveled, what are my next plans... Some key answers in the article.

28/02/2011 - The video "A look at Latvia: pictures of young Europeans"
More than six months after my trip to Latvia, I watched 5 hours of video I shot to make a documentary of 12 minutes with the European citizenship as main theme.

Through nine young people interviews from different nationalities and diverse backgrounds, my goal was to show Latvia through the eyes of its people and especially young people who are trying to build it.

They just talked to the camera and offer a particular glimpse on their lives, revealing their doubts, fears, but also opportunities, dreams to offer a rich melting pot of interculturality.




10/11/2010 - A look at Latvia looking for the medias!
I told you so a few months ago. The travel never ends! Nowadays, the adventure is still going on: I'm preparing an exhibition for January 2011 and editing the documentary. Furthemore, I'm looking for media contacts to promote my project.

The iWith.org Foundation, main supporter in the project, let me some lines to express myself about the travel. Discover the article on their website: Family iWith.org, the foundation supports a youth project in Latvia.


11/08/2010 - The journey comes to an end
Four weeks, 28 days of travel, meetings, discoveries, fulfillment, contacts. Five hours of shooting, 800 photos, 800 unique visitors since July, 10 filmed interviews, 56 published articles, lots of encouragement, this is the numerical balance of the trip. But the most important is the human report of such an adventure.

24/07/2010 - Latvia seen by Dita
Young of almost 30 years old, Dita grew up in Liepaja before leaving for Riga to study Baltic philology. She went to Moscow, and then to Gijon in Spain as a European volunteer. She pursued at Philadelphia, U S A. It took us nearly 3 hours in front of a coffee to get through her experience and her feelings about Latvia.
 

29/06/2010 - Video report on youth mobility in Europe
The project started from informal discussions with young volunteers far away from their home towns. From Barcelona to Rezekne, two French women eager for the same thirst for discovery, exchange about the way of life in Latvia and Spain. These talks rise questions, interrogations and finally the same question always comes in minde: how do we feel European?