“An 80s contemporary teen bravely documented via photos days and moments of a restrictive daily life along with the freedom of expression and manifestation.
Andrei Birsan manages to offer his generation a mean of remembering those moments and for those who are younger and yet to come, a recording of the unspoken truth by all of its knowers.” Adrian Majuru, Bucharest Museum Manager
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Math hour with Ceausescu’s portrait and slogans over the board
RSR emblem (The Socialist Republic of Romania)
Class starts
1980s fashion
High school class master
Our class master doing patriotic labour
You could read during class in the last desk
Patriotic labor at sorting potatoes
Nae and Burlacel didn’t study the lesson
Johnny on a pony
Pingpong on the teacher’s desk
Leapfrog
A new potrait of Ceausescu – the head of class replaces it
Izi taws a hamster fur in the dorm room
In the dorm room, playing 66
In the dorm room, drinking a cup of wine
In the dorm room, Manivela (Crank) and his pet
In the dorm room, working on the project
On the dorm’s hallway, a small accordion concert
Nae’s birthday, dedicated cake for him
Tolerances and measurements class
The professor of Physics
Patriotic labour at potatoes
Mechanisms class
Electrotechnics class
Artistic brigade
Romanian revolution in Palace square, December 1989
College during the revolution from December 1989
The author of the photographies, Andrei Birsan, on a Bucharest street at 16 years of age in April 1981
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