Sleeping gold under the red mountain
Eastern approaches 2013-09-11
Summary:
TRANSYLVANIA is one of the most beautiful areas in Europe. It is also a region which has changed much since the Romanian revolution of 1989. In once dilapidated towns, new houses have replaced old ones and old ones have new roofs and solid windows. Yet as everywhere else in the country, jobs are in short supply and much of the money that flows in here comes from those who sought work abroad.
Even so, in Rosia Montana a Canadian company has created jobs by reviving an ancient mining industry. Yet at what cost? In this, the third in our series of slide shows of work by Balkan photographers, Vesselina Nikolaeva went to find out.
The photos are part of a series to come out of a 2010 collaboration between Germany’s Robert Bosch Stiftung and World Press Photo which teamed up to help 15 talented young photographers from south eastern Europe. All of the essays are here. We are showcasing some of them on...Continue reading