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Difficult life, the flood destroyed my cabages
Trip to Transylvania, Romania in june 2005, near Sovata this one
(wife of the man shaving)
Zoli's grandmother no 1 was there, and spoke with me a lot "she nevers speaks" told me after Zoli. To me she told a lot about her work, her health problems, her son's helping him (now, Zoli told, before he was a hippy). And how much everything costs, and how the flood just killed their cabbage. All of it. How big the water grow, etc.
Then, or between it, offered us "dry" : traditional peasant breackfast for that place. Bred, oignon and bacon. Also, "palinka" but we did not drink "I have to drive"
My father, who comes also from a small town, used to speak with nostalgy about such food, "peasent food" for my mother, and I did not think it was still in usage today and for breakfast !
Yes, told me Zoli, and when possible, eggs too.
Finally, not so far from "ham and eggs" !
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What beautifull eyes!
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set: Gens de Transylvanie
People met in my june 2005 long trip and some one year before (three days)
(but I was born there)
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Before, it was this one:
One of my best portraits
After that he began to work
When I was attracted by the man with siccle, I did not see at first his beautifull face and eyes and smile either.
romania, transylvania, hungarian peasant, june 2005
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Hungarian vendor of cheese
Hungarian peasant cheese vendor at the market,
from Transylvania, Cluj, my birthtown june 2005, very happy I liked her skarf.
"It is old!" she told me, but was very happy.
Then I asked from where it was:
"from my Chehoslovakia !"
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Old garden worker, happy with his life
Met at 22 june in Cluj, Romania (no teeth)
I went to a trip in my hometown where I did not go for forty years and went inside some gardens in the center of town to take the photo of old "courts". I met him there and was fascinated by his interesting face. He was gardening, and accepted to be photographed. I told him, in hungarian, I was born in the same town and promised to come back and give him a photo.
This is the one I gave him, when I met him a few days later. I just came from the market.. He was going to other cleaning job.
I told him, your smile is always so happy, even as...
What even? of course, he told me, not thinking that having to clean still to live at his age, could bother him in any way.
So, whenever I look at his face I remember and appreciate also what I have and do at my age!
My set "strangers... no more" with for now 80 pictures, can be found at
www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/sets/1117580/
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Utrol csig�nyaszony
A beautifull tzigane with whom I spoke a lot : only I do not remember exactly what. Zoli's photo, taken at that time, shows us animated discussing together.
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Zoli's grandfather
One of Zoli's grandfather we visited going from Sovata to Cluj, when I have taken him and Irina to town with me. They had exams in Cluj but lived in Sovata, together, at her parents house. Nor his father, nor his mother (divorced) are helping him to finish his studies. And the grand-parents, complained, they raised him, while small child, and now, he is no more there to help with the work.
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Hungarian face from Transylvania
I did send him, his portrait and the group one too
I stopped near a bus station to take picture of a beautifull garden. And taken him and the friends he was with. Romania, june 2005
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Small shopkeeper
Near buildings where I sleep now, for a few days.
Yes, private initiative is very good, she confirms for me. Come back tomorrow.
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Do not take me!
No, you cannt take me, I am not at cirque!
But I already took it, absolutely taken by the hat and the moustache of the old man in the small town. And I have also a picture of him in context. However, he was the only one who wanted to beat me up, to show me "he is not at a circ" and some other people around there helped me, speaking with him while I took the photo without his knowledge.
near Turda, Romania
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First hungarian I met from Romania
A hungarian village selling folk art, she too, a few miles from Cluj (Kolozsvar)
june 2005
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Petru, towards end of our discussion
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Strangers no more group set, has people I met and talked a bit more, hours, minutes, but whom I spoke too about me also. We really communicated, Walking away, we were no more stranger to each other.
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Didn't he change a lot as expression from the begining towards end of our conversation (almost an hour perhaps)
In the parc of my childhood, in Cluj, Romania, during my visit there, I have set down on a bench where he was, an unknown man to me, and made four consecutive photos of him that tells the tale. We spoke rumanian.
After the hour, he went home to luch and I continued my tour of my birth city where I did not go back for almost forty years.
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Vers Cluj 046
In a small village on the road from Sovata to Cluj, Transylvanian province of Rumania. A beautifull tzigane woman I met on the road. This was taken probably before we discussed.
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The dentiste
In only four days, and fraction of price from France, he put me four porcelan teeth, I needed for my smile. He was a stranger four days before from me, but my cousin knew him already He told me they went to Italy after the communist regime crumbled, but his wife could not get used to it, so they came back.
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Portrait Cheese Seller
He is also making some of the cheese and selling at the market in Cluj.
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Zoli's girlfriend
Irina by Zoli, she is his friend of three years in Sovata, and both are students in Cluj
I met her just this morning and we made the trip that day together. Irina is her name
She is also a very tallented photographer with sharp eyes, and as much as she could, when she was given the chance, she made wonderfull photos.
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Sovata-089
That was before I promised to send him the photo, which I did later.
"My name is Gabor Gabor" he told me in hungarian.
I loved how he looked with outfit and hat and moustache.
But with a hat, it's difficult to get the eyes well.
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Flower vendor, explained me why everyone buys flower that sunday : it was end of year at schools and it was tradition to offer flowers.
I told her some about me. I like that exchange with people I meet.
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Selling things made from wood
An interesting rumanian the market, Cluj, Transylania, he was selling art and tools made from wood and telling me philosophy and religion about how people are egally good and bad, because it is how God made them, as he did not kill Adam and Eve after they did forbidden things.
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Kolozsvar - 029
Young vendors in Cluj, Romania 2004
"gogosar" is a sort of panecake that they are making on place fresh
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Cheese seller, market Cluj
From the market, saturday
Traditional hat from the place of "Telemea" but he is living in a village near Cluj.
He is seller, not maker
Romania, Cluj, juin 2005
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Vendeur des Abricots
Et maintenant, fais-moi avec la caisse des abricots! que voulait-il dire?
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Before Mariage
with her bridal weil, she put on fast : take the photo like that !
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Portrait Before Maire
In the car, just before going in to the maire's office center Cluj, a very happy girl.
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Tzigan Gabor with his blue house
This tzigane is not a "gabor" or is it ?
He gave me his name and adress, name : Gabor Gabor.
He came out barefoot from his house, in some state of collapse as you can view behind him.
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Flower vendor happy to be taken
Rumanian flower vendor at Cluj market. Ok, take a photo of me.
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Flower vendor at Cluj market
Prends-moi avec les deux bouquets, me demande-t-il, heureux d'etre photographie
Please, take me with the two buckets of flowers (but he held them too far).
And happy with the "famous clothing" pullover too.
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Belle tzigane looks at me
Between Sovata and Cluj, I took two young with me in the car, and he made a funny picture of me while I took this one and at our converstation, me and this beautifull woman tzigane we met in a village, where we stopped to take photo of an old house.
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My cousin is math prof at university Bolyai, teaching in hungarian and also in german (that he just learned). In the first bank, is the smiling scool director (or class responsable?) of the unitarian school.
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Working before his house,web
This photos by the young couple with me : Zoli, the hungarian and Irina, the rumanian, both transylvanien. He was cleaning the grass before a beautifull door, but stopped to alow us to make a photo. Then, he begun to work again.
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