Home Palace, 48 photographs, 20 x 25 cm each, 2008 - 2010
The series documents a particular aspect of the labor migration phenomenon which has taken proportions in Romania. It has become common practice for migrants to build prodigious houses they never get to use in their home villages. The houses stand as an indicator of their new social status, their values and expectations, but also as a guarantee of their return to Romania someday.