Yesterday was, by all accounts, another brilliantly hot summer day. The sun was shining. The cats were flopped on the balcony. The old lady across the street was watering her flowers. All was quiet in centru, the beautiful lull between when the students are gone and the Hungarian Days tourists have yet to arrive. The only crowds were down at the strand where girls in … Continue reading Perhaps
On December 21, 1989 at 3:45 in the afternoon, troops stationed in the nearby town of Floresti arrived in the main square of Cluj and opened fire on unarmed demonstrators. A local man named Razvan Rotta, carrying his own personal camera, took the only images of that massacre. It was one of his photographs that I posted two days ago. Elsewhere, where no visual documentation … Continue reading First we must remember
Just as I promised, today I went down to the bank and assembled 4.650 lei (46,5 million old lei), roughly equivalent to 1000 Euros. I photographed it on a Romanian flag to symbolize that my commitment for this money is to make this country a better place to live for everyone. I’ve spent the past 24 hours talking to people and there’s definitely more people … Continue reading The Revolution begins today
It seems like a lifetime ago now but I remember one rainy night more than 12 years ago. I was in a car riding through the pre-dawn morning in Bucharest with a guy I barely knew. He was taking me out for a few hours and then to the airport where I would board a 5am flight back to the United States. Somewhere along the … Continue reading Împuşcaţi-i că nu-s oameni!
Oh my lord, well as best as I tried to predict what would happen next in this crazy world we call politics in Romania, I failed to call this one. On Wednesday, the BEC (national electoral board) sent the final, official count of the votes to the CCR (Constitutional Court). The CCR met Wednesday evening and the next step is for them to render a … Continue reading 6 More Weeks of Chaos
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