Anita Pouchard Serra

Visual storyteller and photojournalist

BUCHAREST, lost in translation

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nationality: French-Argentinian

Biography: Visual storyteller and Photojournalist // Born in 1985 // Buenos Aires, Latin-America and paris // former architect and anthropologist French-Argentinian photojournalist and visual storyteller, based in Buenos Aires Aires and working... MORE

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BUCHAREST, lost in translation

Copyright Anita Pouchard Serra 2024

Date of Work Feb 2018 - Ongoing

Updated Nov 2019

Location bucharest

Topics Art, bucharest, Capitalism, Community, Confrontation, Dictatorship, Documentary, Dreams, Editorial, Essays, Feature, Hope, Landscape, Photography, Photojournalism, Street, Travel

Far from the postcard image of its neighbors Prague, Budapest or Krakow, Bucharest is a beloved or rather poorly known in the circle of capitals of Eastern Europe. The post-89 transition seems to be a permanent state, where changes are sometimes brutal, sometimes absent. Bucharest seems to be in the image of Romanian society, a collage with strong contrasts, where internal forces oppose ideas and feelings from yesterday, today and tomorrow.
This essay proposes to draw a contrasting portrait of Romanian society, with the playground of Bucharest daily life and its surroundings, between an old generation sometimes jostled by an uncertain future, which appears brutal and a young generation free from all ties to the recent past.