Ioana Moldoveanu
What Was It Like Being a DJ in Communist Romania?
Sorin Lupaşcu began DJing in 1974, when he had to record dance music off the radio and hold parties at local high schools, and worked his way up to manning the decks at Eastern Europe's biggest open-air disco.
Bucharest’s Chinese Embassy Is Pissed Off Over Chairman Mao Portraits
Two portraits of Mao Zedong – one by Andy Warhol, another by Romanian artist Paul Hitter – are causing a dust-up.
Bucharest's Chinese Embassy Is Pissed with a Romanian Art Gallery
They want the Contemporary ArtXpert Gallery to stop calling Mao Zedong a dictator.
The Romanian Government Are Occupying the National Library
The Ministry of Culture want to turn a public building into their own private offices.
Romanian Protesters Still Don't Want Gold Companies to Blow Up Their Mountains
Since the beginning of this month, tens of thousands of Romanians have been regularly protesting plans to destroy four of the country's mountains. The Transylvanian region of Roșia Montană, where the mountains are situated, is rich in gold and silver...
Romania's Fish Aren't Being Asphyxiated, Just Poisoned
Remember that time thousands of dead birds fell out of the sky above Arkansas? Well, nature is back on the war parth. In May, reports emerged of thousands of dead fish floating along the Arieş River in Romania. The local authorities claim that the fish...
How a Copper Mine, Not "Nature," Is Poisoning Fish in Romania
Remember that time thousands of dead birds fell out of the sky above Arkansas? Well, nature is back on the warparth, with reports of thousands of dead fish floating along the river Arieş in Romania emerging at the end of this May.
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...
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...
Photos from Another Life
Sometimes pictures can change how we see the world and the people in it. This happened to me a few days ago, when I received a link for an amateur photography blog called Almostmemories. It features pictures of private family moments and vacations from...