Tearful eyes
“Tearful eyes”
the boy from Copsa Mica
This little boy lives in a dark, ruined house in Copsa Mica town, Romania. The very poor and poverty stricken family has a home which has no doors and no windows. I made the photo in August 2008.
Copsa Mica has a dark background. It was one of Europe’s most polluted towns in the 1990 ‘s and remains the most polluted town in Romania to this day (2008). During the socialist regime the facts about pollution in Copsa Mica were kept secret. After the fall of the Communist regime in Romania (1989 December) in the early nineties, industry in Copsa Mica was in crisis, and the soot factory was closed in 1993. At that time some of the workers left the town, the blocks of flats were abandoned. In 1998 a company bought the Copsa Mica smelting works and the metal factory. In 2008 the pollution was more less like before 1989, but it was present. In 2008, many people in the city suffer from lead poisoning …
Awards:
“Poverty and exclusion” – André Kertész Photo Contest – Hungary
Grand Prize Winner & Bronze Plaque/Professional section
1st Prize Winner + Golden Diplom/Social life category/Professional section
5th International Salon of Photography “Mersin 2011″ – Turkey
FIAP Gold Medal
International Exhibition of Photography “Belgrade Photo Autumn 2011” – Serbia
FIAP Gold Medal
5th International Salon of Digital Photography “CELJE 2011″ – Slovenia
PSA Gold Medal
ISO 2011 – International Sillian Organisation Photo Competition – Belgium
PSA Gold Medal
3rd International Salon of Photography “Between the Sky and the Earth 2012″ – Slovenia
PSA Gold Medal
International Photographic Competition “Three Best Photographs of 2011″ – U.S.A.
1st Prize Winner
XXVII. Hungarian Press Photo Contest – Hungary
2nd Prize/Social life category
International Photo Competition PREMFOTO 2011 – Romania
FIAP Honourable Mention
2nd Arctic Exhibition of Photographic Art 2012 – Norway
FIAP Honourable Mention
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Worldwide Photography Gala Awards “Portrait & People 2011″ – U.S.A.
1st Prize & Best of the Show
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The Wrekin Salon 2011 – International Photo Contest – United Kingdom
Highly commended
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1st Portrait Circuit – International Photography Contest 2012 – Serbia
Salon Prize
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5th International Salon of Photography “Banja Luka 2011″ – Bosnia&Herzegovina
AUFBiH Silver Plaquet
“Carol Pop de Szathmari” – International Annyversary Salon 2011 – Romania
AAFR Bronze Medal
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