Witness: Romania

• Photographer
  Liz Darlington

Witness, photographed in Romania, represents constructed realities of real events. The images deconstruct the language of documentary photography. They make no attempt to return the Romanian culture to a document of the real. Instead, they celebrate the necessity of nostalgia and its pivotal place in the realm of the poetic. Yet these images are grounded in the photographic real, depicting a nostalgic picture of a place that is firmly planted in the present. The photographs reference a pre-Modern world, a world which rarely exists, but one to which we are inexplicably drawn. Each photograph provides a constant reminder of a sustainable life that survives on the margins of an increasingly globalized world.