In October 2008, I went for my project “The Young Europeans” to the Republic of Moldova, starting with the first portrait of Ala and Maria on a sunny Monday morning in a park of Chișinău. It was quite an experience to be and photograph in an ex-soviet republic that also had some kind of civil war in the early nineties, which resulted in the separation of Transnistria from the rest of the Republic of Moldova. Now with all that is going on in this region and the multiple reports about the Republic of Moldova, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at those pictures from 2008 and present them here to the world.
Center
Hotel aisle
Main boulevard, sunday morning
Former Jewish poorhouse
On a quiet sunday morning
Saturday
Ala and Ecaterina were the first two persons I photographed for my series “The Young Europeans”, the final picture then was each of them single as I usually did althrough the whole series, see Ala here on my website in the section “The Young Europeans”, digital testshot
Artur being photographed, digital testshot
In the museum of national history, diorama of the Iasi - Chișinău Operation, world war II
In the museum of national history
In the museum of national history,
In the museum of national history
Museum of natural history
Museum of natural history
Heading out to areas around Chișinău, hardly ever travelled on darker roads
Memorial for soviet soldiers
At the river Dniester, separating Moldova from Transnistria
Boy in truck, that returns from harvesting on the fields
Grocery store on the countryside
In a café in Soroca
Ana, working as waitress in the café, digital test shoot for a later portrait on film
Soldier graves at the Dniester in Soroca, killed in the civil war
Abandonded cinema, remaining from soviet times
Soroca is wellknown for the higly ornamented houses built by wealthy Rom
Moldova is very famous for its great wines, underlining this with a great memorial dating back rom soviet times
Going fishing, on the way to the river Dniester
The monastery Orheiul Vechi at the river Răut
Livestock keeping in the plains of Moldova
Shepherds enjoying the rest of the autumn sun and telling the way
In a small village girls meeting for a chat
Nina was working in Valcinet, in a small village school, where I was photographing her for “The Young Europeans”
Young boy on the countryside
Dan, digital testshoot
Dusk on the fields
Deep darkness after returning from Ukrainia,, close to Comrat, the capital of the autonomous region Gagauzia
In the darkness on the countryside
Returning to the light - to Chișinău