Sorea Cata
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We Were Pulled from the Dark: Voices of Titanic Survivors
They say memory is the quietest kind of thunder — it rolls and rolls until it becomes the only sound you can hear. The men and women who were pulled aboard the Carpathia that April morning carried that thunder tucked under their coats: the shock of icy water, the weight of someone lost, the small, stubborn warmth of a blanket.
By Sorea Cata27 days ago in Confessions
Confession from cell 217
Confession from Cell 217: A true story I am writing this from a concrete room no bigger than a parking space. The walls are gray, scratched with the marks of people who came before me and thought they would leave sooner than they did. The light above my head never turns off completely. Even at night, it hums softly, like it’s watching.
By Sorea Cata27 days ago in Confessions
Carol Popp de Szathmári
We owe much of what we know about the Wallachian world of the 19th century to iconographic documents provided by a Transylvanian painter, photographer, war chronicler, publicist, and traveler: Carol Popp de Szathmári. One of the most prolific artists of his time, he lived in Muntenia and then in the United Principalities. His life took place between the workshop, the steamboat, the sailing ship, the newly arrived train or the mail cart with a cover, always looking for new and picturesque things, unseen or on the verge of disappearing.
By Sorea Cata4 years ago in Photography
