Silent Land is a portrait of life in Moldova, one of Europes poorest and remotest countries.
We share the same dreams, the same hopes for the future; its just the conditions that separate us..
A story I share, even though its not mine.
I want to know more, I want to enter the country, meet people and learn their stories.
However, I do know that it is very difficult for me to let go when I have been attracted to something.
I let my meetings with people and my images tell the story.
The connection is often personal and I cant always put into words why I am captivated by a story.
Each time Im about to leave, I wonder what it is that attracts me to a place, a country or a story.
Moldova has changed fundamentally since 2005, and so have I and the people I have met.
I wanted to experience life around the corner, things one takes for granted and perhaps dont pay attention to in ones everyday life ...
But something was missing.
Three month-long trips later I had a collection of photographs from prisons, trafficking and violence.
Those were the stories I had heard about this small, unknown country sandwiched between Romania and the Ukraine, the stories that had coloured my views.
Moldova had become silent: When I arrived in Moldova for the first time, in 2005, I approached the people and the country with an idea about misery and social problems.
When she returned in 2014 she noticed that something had changed.
Photographer sa Sjstrm visited the country repeatedly in the 00s.
Silent Land is a portrait of life in Moldova, one of Europes poorest and remotest countries
