Rural Photography Documentary

To promote rural tourism, in Romania, many photographers go from village to village to take pictures of local habits and activities, local activities and clothes, objects, houses.
During the late summer of 2008, I choose to go in a wonderful village in the Apuseni Mountains on a specific day: the first day of the “Love Festival”, on the “Chiken Mountain Pick”.
I wanted to keep distance from people in order to capture instants of their live, not well prepared portraits. In order to do so, I used a tele-ob.: Tamron 70-300 mm.
Here I show you an old man playing a local musical instrument.

This is an instant portrait of on old lady covering her eyes from the burning sun.

Children are dancing on local music.

Since it was the “love festival”, here’s a portrait of the girl who won the contest for “perfect marriage country girl”.

Here is how the houses looked like in the old times in this area of my Country.

On the same topic, I have some older photos to illustrate the Romanian traditions.