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Being Old in Romania Can Be a Lot of Fun

I decided to take a series of photos to demonstrate that age really isn't an issue. You can cycle, solve Rubix cubes, and make obscene, sexual gestures with your mouth and fingers. Full story

2013 Mar 29 Cristiana Negoescu Photo

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Partying with the Secret Police in Romania

Vacation options in communist Romania were pretty limited. When Labor Day, the big party holiday of the year, rolled around on May 1, many Romanians traveled to Costinesti, the only seaside resort for young people in the country. Full story

2013 Mar 19 Ioana Moldoveanu and Stefan Munteanu Stuff

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Photographing the Children of Romania's Communist Estates

During the communist period, housing estates were built all over Romania in an attempt to provide homes for workers. However, once the revolution came and capitalism swept in, the buildings were forgotten about and fell into disrepair. Full story

2013 Mar 6 Ioana Moldovan Photo

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Bucharest Is a Paradise

According to legend, the capital of Romania takes its name from some guy named Bucur who was either a prince, an outlaw, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a hunter. It's hard to understand how the truth could have gotten so muddled over the years, but it doesn't matter now because Buch… Full story

2013 Mar 1 Lucian Varvaroi Photo

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Romanian Prison Vogues

For the last few years, prisoners in Romania have been able to dress however they want as long as they maintain minimum standards of decency. This got our Romanian counterparts wondering: What do chicks wear when they're surrounded by the awfulness and heartbreak of prison life? Full story

2013 Feb 15 Ioana Moldoveanu Fashion

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Photographing the Towns Communist Romania Forgot

Ioana Cîrlig and Marin Raica plan to travel around the heavily-industrialized areas left after the Communist period, documenting the lives of the people who ex-Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu turned from farmers into miners, then left bankrupt after his misguided, Socialist… Full story

2012 Nov 1 Ioana Moldoveanu Photo

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Money Makes Monsters

Sorin Popescu is a 23-year-old Romanian pharmacy student who came up with a project called 'Life on Money,' where he incubated some of the more dangerous bacteria he found on the currency circulating around his country, then placed that bacteria in chemical fluids to accelerate t… Full story

2012 Oct 5 Mihai Popescu, Photos: Stefan Sava Stuff

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I Was Communist Romania's Top Model

If I've learned anything from popular culture, it's that any country that has ever dabbled with communism has been MISERABLE. Everything is built from concrete and soil and people have to marry tractors. So, I wasn't wildly surprised when I heard that the communist era hadn't bee… Full story

2012 Sep 21 Lorena Lupu, Photos by Dinu Lazăr Fashion

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The Reluctant Roma Cannibals of Romania

Conditions in Nazi concentration camps were so horrible, many Roma were forced to eat their children. Romeo Tiberiade is making a documentary about this terribly depressing story, which chronicles the deportation of Roma people from Romania to Transnistria during the Holocaust. Full story

2012 Sep 20 Mihai Popescu Stuff

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