Emilija Jefremova from Lithuania first moved to Ireland in 2006
Aged 19, Emilija Jefremova joined her boyfriend, who was in Ireland, for the summer before college. Life didn’t follow its planned course; “the visit extended into what now is 18 years”. Next year, the freelance photographer will have been based in Ireland for as long as she was in her nativecity but as we chat she’s out west, in Barna, the sea visible behind her, minding a friend’s home and pet. The weather is wild and she’ll spend her day photo editing.
An Englishman on Irish life: ‘There is an underlying positivity in Ireland, certainly in comparison to your Anglo-Saxon neighbours’ She was at TG4 for six years, “a great training set, lovely people to work with”, and she still freelances there. “Filming on those big cameras, it’s a good thrill. But I was very eager to do something more creative.”
A Californian woman in Dublin: ‘Ireland’s not perfect, but I do think as a whole it is moving in the right direction’ She’s been a freelance photographer for four years, and “with every job, I constantly learn something. That is the most beautiful aspect of photography”. Her work is eclectic: portraiture, theatre, project-based work, documenting, video and drone, magazine, PR, corporate and freelancing for a news agency.
Flying to Lithuania is “going home”, but so too is coming back to Galway. Her memories of Lithuania are of childhood, and Ireland is where “I grew up as an adult, and established myself as a creative”. And, “I don’t know if it’s just pure luck, because I know it happens, but I have never had any comments or bullying about my nationality or that I was with a woman.”
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