Just another day in Bucharest

You gotta love this city! A view of the street outside my apartment today.

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An image from my work for Bloomberg last week about the financial crisis in Romania appears in the NY Times today.

"The maximum, that is what has always interested me." - Josef Koudelka

I was in Bulgaria overnight wandering around the border town of Ruse in the snow and drinking the very good Zagorka beer. Being in such a state of liminality at night amongst people whose language you cannot make out made me think of Josef K and all his years of wandering. How fresh one feels to be in a new place, how easily the photographs come.

On assignment again for The International Herald Tribune on 2/22

I am reporting the interviews for the writer of the Chinese immigrant story who is in Paris as well as doing the photography.

Chinese Immigrants stranded in Romania

Hundreds of Chinese immigrants are currently stuck in Romania after their work contracts with construction firms here were suddenly terminated after only two months. About three hundred of them are camped out in makeshift tents in front of the Chinese Embassy hoping to get some kind of help. Apparently, they paid middlemen large sums of money to secure the contracts only to be literally left out in the cold. By day, hundreds more are joining them to stage a protest as they all lack the money to buy tickets home. The economic crisis hit Romania just as the immigrants arrived in November.

I turned 31 on the 17th. . . am rocking on here in Romania!

On assignment for The International Herald Tribune in Bucharest on 2/16-2/17

I can't say what it's about until the pictures are published.