The projects of six female photographers from Moldova produced during four months under the guidance of Romanian photo-journalists Ioana Moldovan and Ioana Cîrlig were displayed at the Municipal Library “B. P. Hasdeu” in Chisinau. The exhibition contains about 60 works and will be open to the public until January 31, IPN reports.
“The exhibits includes social projects by which we wanted to attract the society’s and authorities’ attention. They are about the relocation of villages as a result of floods, the milk road, people with disabilities and the challenges they face, communities of Moldovan and their jobs in Portugal. The heroes of the photographs were chosen by the photographers themselves, depending on the documented themes,” stated Victoria Bortă, programs coordinator at the Reporters Association “People and Kilometers”, noting the exhibition was mounted as part of a program of training and scholarships.
Photographer Liliana Botnariuc, author of the project “Milk Road”, said this is about the work done by people, starting from the farmer’s bucket of milk up to the shelves in the supermarket, where milk products are sold. The photographer went to Edineț, which is the district with the largest number of cows in Moldova – about 7,000, and also to Zăbriceni, where the number of cows fell to only 75 during the last 15 years. The young woman said that during her trips she found people who wake up at 5am each day and take the cows to pasture and go to collect the milk. “I documented the road up to the milk factory in Cupcini, where hundreds of people work daily standing as they cannot work otherwise,” stated the author.
For photographer Elena Kovalenko, the project was a challenge that generated a lot of emotions. Her protagonists are a married couple of young people with disabilities from Fălești. “I came to terms swiftly with them as they are positive and optimistic. They showed that the persons with disabilities are not different from the people without disabilities and their love for each other helps them overcome all the challenges of life,” she stated. During four months, she collected facts and saw that the people are indifferent to the difficulties encountered by the persons with disabilities and this is regrettable.
Nadejda Roșcovan applied to take part in the project in order to try and do something more than photography. The heroine of her project is a 29-year-old woman who suffers from a genetic disease that affects her locomotor system and speech. She got acquainted with her at a rehabilitation center in Grătiești before the project. The young woman didn’t have a personal assistant who would have helped her a lot. “I hope that this report will make the social assistance service realize that such persons need someone near them as they cannot cope otherwise,” stated Nadejda Roșcovan.
The complete versions of the stories presented at the exhibition are to be published on the platform www.oamenisikilometri.md.
