Ballet show in front of the church in the neighbourhood I grew up in, Manastur, in Cluj. The church has been under construction for almost 30 years, and building started the year I went on first grade.
Actors perform a puppets show at the children’s theatre in Cluj. This was my first time ever visiting the theatre, despite growing up here.
Alexandra, my neighbour from the 4th floor, the floor under mine, is posing for a pregnancy photo. We know each other since I was 6, and she was probably 3 or 4.
My grandmother is entering the summer kitchen at her home, in Turda, 30 km outside Cluj. She passed on in August 2019, and my family sold the house.
Locals and visitors dance during a concert at Pata Rat, in the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, where hundreds of families live near the city’s landfill site.
Self portrait on the last day of self-quarantine, 14 days after returning from South Sudan to my home in Floresti, a suburb of Cluj-Napoca, where many people my age who grew up in Cluj have moved, as apartment prices have become unaffordable for many.
Photos from growing up