While on holiday in Cluj, Romania, I embarked on a small digitisation project. My girlfriend, Ruxandra, is from Cluj, and her family still lives here. Within their library, her parents have kept this manuscript for about 60 years. The book was found in Făgăraş, a mountain town near the Carpathians between Sibiu and Braşov. Ruxandra’s grandfather was an orthodox […]
Tag Archives: Romania
Amateur Digitisation
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Fagaras
fagaras Originally uploaded by Janrito Karamazov. Caught in between the development of new economic centers and the shutting down of gigantic communist era factories, small towns in Romania struggle to find new life. Fagaras, a once commercial and political center of the Feudalist Europe is a clear example of this phenomenon. Fagaras was once the home of […]
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Ganditorul de la Hamangia
This is the second time I shoot these ‘scene’. Last time I show just the male thinker, but I thought i’d give it a try with both. On the technical side, I used the flash and a larger aperture this time, I wated to get a little bit more detail in background city, Boston. I also wanted to get more detail of the statues. […]