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George Popescu

George Popescu

George Popescu is a freelance photographer and videographer based in Bucharest, Romania. He is a member of N-OST news agency based in Berlin and focused on Eastern Europe and ex-soviet countries. He has been published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Spiegel, L’Express, CNN, Focus, NZZ.ch, Berliner Zeitung, TAZ, Wiener Zeitung, Die Wochenzeitung, and in Romanian magazines like Esquire, Decat o Revista, and Vice. He has worked as a videographer and cameraman for ARTE tv, ARD, Blue Cross International, Vice UK, and World Animal Protection. In  2013 he started a long-term project, documenting Jiu Valley, a mono industrial coal mining region in Romania, and in 2015 he received a first prize in the Lensculture Visual Storytelling Awards, single image category. George can be reached at poqe (at) poqe (dot) com
SNIM employees, who travel on special reserved coaches, talk in Arabic dialect while they lunch on September 30, 2015. It is custom in the desert to share food and water with the other travelers. (George Popescu/GroundTruth)
A New Light

A 20-hour train ride through the Sahara Desert

Passengers often ride on top of the train cars transporting iron ore across the Sahara desert, from the mine...

May 03, 2016

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