​     This is the place where my soul grew in harmony with nature; where my soul understood it's impulse to create. It is the place where I lived my childhood.  

I think it’s important for a child to be in direct contact with nature and animals. This connections allowed me to understand emotionally and subconsciously how to be a free being.

I could even say that nature was my teacher - it taught me how to create.  I'm very thankful that I spent my childhood there. 

My drive for photography has it's roots in this place and I often came back here to catch new images of it’s evolution. I made connections with a very few people here. 

For most of its old and mature people the village it's not bad, neither good - it is what it is.  But for the teenagers it's a place they cannot wait to escape from, dreaming about the cool life of the big cities. (photos and text by Ruxandra Petre)

    Everyday in the crowded cities, people of every age and every sex moves. In their gaze i often notice expressions that reflect some thoughts, anxieties and desires. Eyes that sometimes looking you meaningfully and you feel that they have something to tell you and sometimes they overtake you indifferently, lost within their own time-space. This is exactly what I tried to capture with my camera, trying to play an active role in this process, whose the only protagonist is the human gaze. (Photos and text by Makis Makris)