How a Chance Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed a Master Photographer

For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame is rising.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/europe/photographer-moldova-soviet-cusnir.html

For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame is rising.

The discarded pictures were the life’s work of Zaharia Cusnir, an unknown amateur photographer who died in 1993.