Note from the editor
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They say that “everything you read, watch, listen, dream, is channelled into your pictures and most of the time they are Déjà-vus. The only problem is to know and carefully select what to carry with you, your burden in this wonderful and scary trip.” - from the Anti-Manual

Ruxandra is going beyond that and she applies with dexterity the “take the picture now, think later” which, for the undersigned, is the only way to find an original perspective, to explore and propose new ways of connecting with the viewer (the latter being already drown in the visual tsunami). - Michail

​     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)