TELLING TIME (Romania, 2004-2008)
For more than twenty years now the French photographer Philippe Lopparelli has devoted himself to the discovery of remote, forgotten and timeless regions. The social codes, less affected by mod-ernisation, now seem little like ours. An example are the Carpathians, a chain of mountains that ex-tend across Romania. This is a thickly wooded and very thinly populated region, with legendary panoramas, in which the castle of the infamous Count Dracula is to be found. Lopparelli focuses on the sincerity of the people, and their traditional lifestyle. TELLING TIME seeks to capture the quiet ebb and flow of rural life, thrown back into a bygone time.
