Moldovan capital hosts topical photo exhibition

Chisinau, 08 July /MOLDPRES/ – An exhibition of photographs entitled "Realities" was exposed next to the statue of Stephen the Great in Chisinau today. The event was organized by the Reporters Association "People and Kilometres", within a project supported by the European Endowment for Democracy (EED).

The exhibition includes 50 photos that bring to the attention of the society, as well as central and local public authorities, issues related to the ecological status of the Dniester river, the educational system, migration, the perspective of the young people from the villages and the aging of the population.

Interviwed by the agency, Polina Cupcea, a project coordinator, mentioned that the photographs were made by five Moldovan authors (Vadim Stirbate, Dan Gutu, Andrei Moraru, Ion Donica and Mihail Calaras) selected in a scholarship contest meant to support and promote documentary photography and photojournalism, attended by 40 young people. The total amount of scholarships was €2500.

According to Vadim Stirbate, the scholarship offered by Association "People and Kilometres" meant for him a motivation to meet other people in more than one kilometre from home. "In the education system, we had a very good ground to photograph everything that is good and what is less good. It intrigued me to continue on my own to document the given field," said Vadim Stirbate.

At his part, Mihai Calaras stated that he had chosen the character for his photographic studies, Serghei Harcenco, a man who for 15 years visited the cave monastery of Tipova and from November 2016 he was employed at the Tipova-Saharna Museum Complex and since then has worked and lived there in a cave of the XVth century. "He takes a life of a hermit, and his neighbours are snakes, lizards, spiders and bats. Here, Serghei Harcenco found inner peace and the feeling of "home"," said Mihail Calaras.

One of the visitors to the exhibition, Eugenia Godoroja, said that it had to be seen by as many people as possible to discover the realities of Moldova’s villages and cities.

This exhibition will be inaugurated at Soroca Fortress and in Square of Horas in Cahul, on 09 July. The exhibition will be open until 31 July in Chisinau.

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor M. Jantovan)