Romanian photography project featured on New York Times blog

Newsroom 27/07/2012 | 12:37

Around the Black Sea,” a photography project about cultures and stories of the people near the Black Sea written and photographed by the Romanian journalists Petruţ Călinescu and Ştefan Cândea, was featured on the New York Times blog dedicated to photography.

The photography project started in Romania and then went to Bulgaria and Turkey, to Armenia and Azerbaijan (neither of which borders the Black Sea, though both are included in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation initiative). The two photographers visited Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, and traveled to separatist republics Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and Abkhazia.

According to the New York Times blog, Petruţ Călinescu is “as a boy growing up in Constanta, a Romanian city on the western coast of the Black Sea, who made the seaside his playground. He spent his afternoons with friends, searching for German bunkers and plotting adventures. He recalls being drawn to the mystique of the open water.”

But for most of his 36 years, Petruţ Călinescu never made it to the other side. So “The Black Sea,” a project he pursued jointly with the writers Stefan Candea and Ioana Hodoiu, was born out of nostalgia for an unknown place.

For this project, they received a grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States with which they began to explore what he calls “a black hole” in the Romanian mind-set. They traveled more than 9,000 miles in 80 days, documenting their journey on a blog.

More about “Around the Black Sea” project in New York Times blog can be read here.

Oana Vasiliu

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