The circle game - 1989 - βULB photos

The circle game - 1989

5/18/2016

A quarter of a century ago …
I met your parents, went out on the streets, chanted "freedom", danced and sang with them … at Bucharest down town.
　
Almost 25 years ago,
I got in the dictator's palace, made a selfie in his private mirror, and I witnessed the first appearance of the new government … at Cotroceni.
　
Back in 1989,
I heard the machine-guns, smell the fire, saw death with my own eyes … during the struggle on the street.
　
A quarter of a century ago,
I lit a candle for the dead and shouted together with you for justice and for a new Romania.

(Photos and text by: Ioannis Stamatogiannis)

"There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through" - Joni Mitchel - Circle game

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The Bulb Collective consists of photographers active in urban (and rural) photography with an expressive shift to include highly aesthetic and poetic images in their assignments.

They share the same vision but not the same perspective which gives the necessary "polyphony" in their extremely ambitious endeavour to cover all the aspects of the Balkan neorealism.

Their visual signatures aspire to create iconic images and to be the best in metamorphosing and interpreting all aspects of life in this highly contradictory and fascinating part of the world.