I’m on my way to Perpignan via Paris!

It’s the end of the summer and that means an end to haymaking but also the time to head to the Visa pour L’Image photo festival in the southern French city of Perpignan. I will be there all of next week. 

A beautiful woman

Ramona, my beautiful friend from Romania who has a great name and is a wonderful person.

Iasi by day

I was in this university city in the northeast of the country to rent a car in order to be able to drive over to Maramures through the Bukovina region–a trip through one of the most pristine areas of Europe–and I came across this street scene of a young couple. Romania can have a beautiful, sharp light at times.

Scenes from Romania

Maramures Color Outtakes (traditional pics)

Bucharest by night

I am based in this Balkan capital which has a kind of hipness I have not found anywhere else. Neoclassical architecture mixed with Communist era blocs provide a backdrop of decadent urban decay and the young people possess a rabid desire to surpass the West’s materialism. There is a raw energy to the city that has to be experienced to be believed.

Hanging out in Maramures – personal snapshots

I’m continuing to shoot in black and white on film in addition to the new color digital work however.

New color project in Maramures

I am working on a new color project in Maramures focusing on the youth who are leaving to work abroad and then returning with hard earned Euros, expensive mobile phones and nice cars. The dynamics of traditional village life are changing and I intend to observe the transformation over the coming years.

Photography show on at the Met

Read about it here.

Haymaking outtakes

The New Yorker got in touch today. . .

I am busy searching the archive right now for the perfect image to illustrate a fiction piece in The New Yorker.

The Guardian speaks with Koudelka

Check it out here.

My friends in Valeni

EAST by Anzenberger Agency

I have 16 images from my Maramures project in the recent book titled ‘EAST’ from my agency Anzenberger which showcases projects in Eastern Europe. It can be purchased here.

Me in Maramures taking a break from photographing