This photographic project portrays the state of the Romanian nation, through portraits of three generations of women in the new era of a big united Europe.
The project attempts to describe through portraits the community of Calarasi, my hometown, which just like the whole country is affected,at different levels, by the migration phenomenon. After the fall of communism in ‘89, borders opened to all Romanians and many of them looked for a better life outside the country. According to estimates, in 2007, when Romania entered the EU, more than 2.5 million Romanians were already working abroad. Afterwards this trend continued. In theseries I am bringing forward three generations: two of them are left at home, in Romania, they are either too young or too old to leave the country and the middle is the active generation which left abroad. The mother-child bound, which is one of the most profound relationship, is interpreted further as the bound with the country itself, with Romania.
Odeta Catana
Weekend portfolio selected by Elodie Mailliet Storm
