Seeking the World’s Soul

Two boys work on a dredg­ing boat in the Danube Delta, Romania

Some boys work­ing on a dredg­ing boat in the Danube Delta, Roma­nia. Dredg­ing is highly dis­rup­tive of the frag­ile delta envi­ron­ment, but I love the time­less­ness of this photo — peo­ple have always worked on rivers, often start­ing very young. The boys could as eas­ily have been work­ing on the Mis­sis­sippi as on the Danube.

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Lilly, an Eston­ian model work­ing in Berlin

I’ve been doing some more work with mod­els recently, mainly a lovely Eston­ian girl named Lilly. Unfor­tu­nately, I seemed to have for­got­ten all my (mea­gre) Eston­ian except for “Saku Tume, palun”, which is how one orders a dark Saku brand beer. Deli­cious stuff. I’m not sure if it’s really that good, actu­ally, or only that good in com­par­i­sion to Russia’s dark beers — Baltica Six is the only drink­able one, in my opin­ion, and I was pretty sick of that by the time I left…

Any­way, Lilly’s been lovely to work with, and some of these shots just smol­der. I’m think­ing they’d work well for book cov­ers on romance or vam­pire nov­els (funny how much over­lap there is there, isn’t it?). Any­way, the gallery is a mix of quite a few dif­fer­ent styles as we were work­ing on a port­fo­lio for her and that requires a model to show off her range. Take a look and enjoy.

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Bucharest (http://archive NULL.kira­ha­gen NULL.com/c/kirahagen/gallery/Bucharest/G0000bO1jdxNAx3A) — Images by Kira Hagen (http://archive NULL.kira­ha­gen NULL.com/c/kirahagen)

I have my first pho­tos from Bucharest up now… hon­estly didn’t take that many pic­tures in the cap­i­tal; it’s the sort of place that walk­ing alone with a DSLR doesn’t seem like the best of ideas. That said, the town has a crum­bling ele­gance that was very grace­ful. Every cor­ner held promises of strange­ness and won­ders — they used to call Bucharest the Paris of the East, though it made me think more of pho­tos I’ve seen of Havana. Cer­tainly the heat bore more rela­tion to a trop­i­cal island than main­land Europe!

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Medieval Gate and Clock Tower in Sighisoara, Romania

Just got back from a trip to beau­ti­ful Roma­nia. I shot over 4,000 pic­tures on a 10 day trip and have a lot of edit­ing ahead of me now! Man­aged to see a lit­tle of Bucharest, Tran­syl­va­nia, the Danube Delta, and the Machin Munti National Park, and over­all had a very sat­is­fy­ing bit of travel.

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