Polluted Garden, Romania, 1995

Photo by Antonin Kratochvil / VII. Polluted Garden, Romania, 1995.

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From the series "Broken Dream: Twenty Years of War in Eastern Europe," 1976-1995. Life during the depths of the Cold War — an era of immense corruption, pollution, loneliness, and terror reveals an unknown and desolate world of workers, gypsies, thieves, street kids, and refugees in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe.

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VII was created in 2001 by seven of the world’s leading photojournalists. Renowned for the quality of its photography, the group’s collective archive of over 100,000 images is an iconic summary of the defining landmarks of the late Twentieth Century and it continues to grow as the new Millennium develops.

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