Photographs from documentary photographer Joseph Rodriguez’s just-released e-book with FotoEvidence was featured in the New York Times Lens Blog on January 22, 2015. Rodriguez took these photos between 1990 and 1996, following the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and sparking a revolution to overthrow one of the most brutal Communist regimes in the world. The photographs reflect the jarring industrial landscape; children in orphanages and psychiatric institutions; and — a “lighter side of Romania” — daily life in the countryside.
Rodriguez has been working as a photographer for over 25 years, and has published monographs about communities in New York City, Los Angeles, Sweden, Mexico City, and many other cities and countries around the world. He has published several books in addition to “Romania,” and is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography. Rodriguez recently had a show at Hardhitta Gallery featuring some of his photographs of inner-city life in New York and Los Angeles.
The e-book can be purchased via the FotoEvidence website or the iTunes bookstore.