The Nistru war is depicted in detail by an exhibition of photos mounted by photojournalist Nicolae Pojoga at the Exhibitions Center “Brancusi”. The exhibit “Out of the blue” was opened on March 2, when the victims of the Nistru war of 1992 are commemorated, IPN reports.
The exhibition contains 62 black-and-white pictures taken between March and July 1992 in settlements on the right and left banks of the Nistru River. Most of them are ‘single’ photos for photographic news distributed by the then print media. Nicolae Pojoga said that in 1992 he found courage and set the goal of being as honest as possible in his job and of remaining alive.
Attending the event, Minister of the Interior Dorin Recean said that after 22 years the Transnistrian region remains a hotbed of disputes and provocations. “This exhibition reveals another dimension of this conflict. We can see what happened 22 years ago in detail in photographs. They help us to understand how such conflicts affect our lives and what we must do to prevent them,” he stated.
Liberal MP Corina Fusu said Nicolae Pojoga is an artist and a real citizen because he risked going to the battlefield. “These people weren’t well trained from military viewpoint. They were ordinary people who struggled for their small and young state. These photos are a small part of those events,” she said.
Journalist Valentina Ursu stated that the photos are a real book that speaks about the Nistru war. “It was a real war because the citizens struggled to defend the integrity and sovereignty of Moldova. Some pictures show more than one can write,” she said, calling on those who took photos then to publish them in a book as the people must know the past and the future.
Nicolae Pojoga is a photojournalist working for national and international media outlets, stringer for Reuters, AP, EPA, BBC, Rompres, journalist and editor at news agencies, and regional expert in ethics and freedom of the media. He founded the photojournalism agency “Argus” that in 1991-1993 worked in Riga, Vilnius, Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova and Russia.
