A beautiful, poetic celebration in words and photographs of contemporary Romania, by noted New York photographer Virginia Joffe and Romanian poet Carmen Firan. Through poems of magical realism and memorable, sensitive and surprising photographs, they memorialise a time when the old world had collapsed and a new one had not yet appeared. This collaborative work captures the anguish of people struggling to escape history - while seeking to better understand themselves and their traditions.
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A beautiful, poetic celebration in words and photographs of contemporary Romania, by noted New York photographer Virginia Joffe and Romanian poet Carmen Firan. Through poems of magical realism and memorable, sensitive and surprising photographs, they memorialise a time when the old world had collapsed and a new one had not yet appeared. This collaborative work captures the anguish of people struggling to escape history - while seeking to better understand themselves and their traditions.