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Photos of Childhood in Europe’s Poorest Nation

Asa Sjöström documents the resilience of childhood in the ex-Soviet nation.

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/moldova-rural-poverty-europe-ukraine

Moldova is currently the poorest country in Europe. It gained its independence from Russia in 1992, and since then, there’s been very little media coverage of it. I found it to be a curious place—unknown and undocumented, so I went to take pictures.