Those who dream
by Lageat Capucine & Antoine Perroteau
portfolio shortlisted call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024', 2024
Category: Anthropology and Territories
Since the collapse of Ceaușescu's regime in 1989, Romania has experienced massive emigration, which it is still struggling to stem. While the country claims to be integrated into all the treaties of the European Union, many of its nationals can already consider themselves profoundly European, having lived in different European countries and mastered several languages. In the north-west, Transylvania has always been at the crossroads of cultures. Here we find Romanians who want to leave and those who dream of rebuilding their lives in their homeland, as well as new immigrants from the West and the Global South, for whom Transylvania represents an unexpected opportunity.
This series of photographs was produced as part of a carte blanche by the Institut français de Cluj-Napoca with the support of the Culture Moves Europe programme run by the Goethe-Institut.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024