… and the story continues… The next year, in 2018, Șerban got his wish: he went back to Afghanistan for a short mission. A longer one may come, but as he said… small steps. He is not...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/12/we-are-invictus-story-continues.html
For most students, the university dormitory is the first place they live in that is not their family home. What makes their transition easier? How do they adorn their new space to feel more at h...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/12/at-home-in-dorm.html
For the past two years, ever since the social-democrat government tried to adopt an emergency decree that would decriminalise official misconduct back in January 2017, protests have become a reg...
If school kids in Mountain Grove, Missouri had to pick a superhero, it might be Super Sonny. In adults’ words, Sonny Byerley is the first resource officer for this small Ozark town. His job is...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/10/super-sonny-protecting-kids-of-mountain.html
THERE IS ONE THING THESE MEN ALL HAVE IN COMMON: THEY WENT THROUGH HELL AND CAME OUT STRONGER. THEY ARE INVICTUS. At 24, corporal Eugen Pătru had to learn to walk again. He remembers the har...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/08/we-are-invictus.html
On Children’s day, 1st of June, inmates from Jilava Penitentiary received visit from their children and got to spend some time with their families. ...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/06/childrens-day-at-jilava.html
The Miss & Mister Down syndrome contest in Romania There is a stigma attached to Down syndrome in Romania. Finding official statistics is an extremely challenging quest, with authorities making...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/06/be-down-for-happiness.html
MEDICINA CU STOMAC DE FIER Minutele curg. Mâinile împreunate apasă insistent pe pieptul omului. Nicio schimbare pe monitorul care înregistrează pulsul. Sau lipsa lui. Broboanele de sudoa...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2018/02/medicina-cu-stomac-de-fier.html
CU AMBULANȚA PE DRUM DE ȚARĂ Pe Strada Policlinicii din Bălcești, la numărul 7, telefonul sună necontenit. De la capătul celălalt al liniei o voce transmite ceva rapid. Nu trec trei ...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2017/11/cu-ambulanta-pe-drum-de-tara.html
7.8 - a fatal number for Nepal. It’s the magnitude of the April 25th earthquake that shook the country almost two years ago. The Great Gorkha Earthquake and its hundreds of aftershocks, includ...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2017/02/surviving-gorkha.html
“Good day, doctor! Good evening, doctor”, voices of people of all ages greet her kindly as Floarea Ciupitu walks around the village. At 61 she has been a family doctor serving Gangiova, a vi...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-country-doctor-and-her-calling.html
In El Kabaria, one of the poor neighbourhoods of Tunis, Ahmed Sassi sits in at the computer in his family’s kiosk, just across the road from the tram line. The 31 year-old, master degree in po...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2016/11/poisoned-jasmine.html
The every day life of a family in Monticello, NY. Story done during the Eddie Adams Workshop 2016.
Monticello, NY - After some problems with the law in his early youth, Daniel Sutton completely changed his life around. He started an NGO to stop the violence and save the youth, working with th...
A naked man is standing in front of a wardrobe. It’s not his own though. He chooses a pair of pants, tries them on. In a weird way, closing buttons seems like a first. The shirt he picked is to...
Cristian Mungiu? Cristi Puiu? With their success at the latest Cannes festivals, one might imagine Romania is quite the cinematic country. But these big names fall on deaf ears when it comes to m...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-cinemobile.html
A story of refugees forced to find a temporary home in Athens due to random political decisions Athens, Greece - - The clock strikes midnight and the room on the ground floor of the former tax ...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-refugee-new-year-in-greek-anarchist.html
Thin curves of smoke loomed on the poorly illuminated corridor. The muffled sound of blasts outside could still be heard below, in the bunker. Grom put out another cigarette. The grim look on his...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/12/ukraines-epidemic-trauma.html
As Riman was sitting down in a crowded corner of the low-lighted container, large clothes on, you could not tell. She is five months pregnant. Two weeks before, Riman and her husband left their h...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/11/groundhog-day-in-gevgelija.html
"We want go!" the voices of refugees sound behind the gates of the camp in Opatovac, Croatia, 10km away from the Serbian border. For nights, before the camp was established, refugees had been s...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/09/refugees-passage-to-europe_30.html
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our concert!” It was 18:34 when the staccato of mortar fire rounds began and Alexandr’s joke, a 33 year-old Ukrainian soldier that goes by the...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/09/on-frontlines-of-war-in-ukraine.html
Water splashes as men covered in soap suds jump in the lake, disturbing its evening calmness. The air is still hot after a sultry day. Few dozen meters away, men are playing volleyball in the las...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/09/moments-away-from-front-line.html
In wartime, even strong men need a little something to believe in for protection and survival. Little personal objects to grasp onto. Something to give them hope and resilience, to guard their fo...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/09/ukrainian-warriors-special-armour.html
The queue stretched for one and a half kilometres. It is hard to wait in a traffic jam when you are running away from war. When people in Semenivka heard the fighting was coming to their home to...
http://ioanamoldovan.blogspot.com/2015/07/when-ukraine-is-no-longer-ukraine_23.html