Children from Transylvania

My project "Children from Transylvania" present different lives of childrens from Transylvania region of Romania, in which the first picture present Benedek Béla wodcutter and four of his nine children (Barni, Bernáth, Klári, Adél) from Zetelaka village. The poverty stricken family have difficulty earning their daily bread. The father worked in the forest from morning till night, while the mother was at home with the smaller children. Not long after the picture was taken, Béla hung himself in the attic of their humble little house... The second picture present Sanyika - the boy with tearful eyes and in the backround of the image we can see the silhouette of his brother. This little boy lives in a dark, ruined house in Copsa Mica town, Transylvania Romania. The very poor and poverty stricken family has a home which has no doors and no windows. Copsa Mica has a dark background. It was one of Europe’s most polluted towns in the 1990 ‘s and remains the most polluted town in Romania to this day. During the socialist regime the facts about pollution in Copsa Mica were kept secret. After the fall of the Communist regime in Romania (1989 December) in the early nineties, industry in Copsa Mica was in crisis, and the soot factory was closed in 1993. At that time some of the workers left the town, the blocks of flats were abandoned. In 1998 a company bought the Copsa Mica smelting works and the metal factory. Today the pollution is more less like before 1989, but it is present. Today many people in the city suffer from lead poisoning... The third picture present a girl with name Yelena, when I saw this little girl, she was just swinging in the veranda of their house. Her innocent look, the uniqueness face expression, the distinct beauty and the compelling charm captured my attention in that moment. The bright and glowing facial features are talking about her inner pureness. I took this photo about the girl in a fabulous looking village, where the effects of modern world are less present in the lives of their inhabitants. The little girl is shown wearing a headscarf, that is part of the typical Maramureş traditional costume, which almost every woman and girl must bear in this part (Maramureş county) of the Transylvanean area of Romania. With my project I would like to demonstrate the different lives of children from Transylvania region of Romania.