Sfinţi, voievozi şi anonimi celebri
Saints, voivodes and famous anonymous

Summary/Abstract: This is a collection of portraits, from saints to common people, all belongig to my culture. Inspired by an exhibition I once visited in Vienna, where 7 of the famous Portraits of Fayoum were exposed, in a most unconventional but brilliant way, I tried to do the same. I tried to "paint" these portraits bringing them to life in the middle of events that made it possible for me to meet them as a journalist. For instance St. Ioan in the Hozeva desert in Israel, Aniţa through the journal she wrote during her deportation in Siberia or Anghel, a gipsy who regained his honour while imprisoned in Italy and whom I had met travelling by train from Bucharest to Sibiu. I selected 7, just like the 7 portraits of Fayoum in the art gallery in Vienna. Each of them is a special opportunity for open minds to understand my culture and for open hearts to fall in love with it.

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