Pades, in the Greek Pindus: the Manakia brothers’ photograph, around 1900, and the same valley today.

A VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY PROJECT BY CĂTĂLIN D. CONSTANTIN

Beyond Yesterday

An Anthropological Walk Retracing the Path of the Manakia Brothers in the Early 1900s

More than a decade of fieldwork and archival research across five Balkan countries. Cătălin D. Constantin set out from the photographs taken by the Manakia brothers around 1900 and searched, village by village, for the places and the angles from which they were taken. A century later, he photographed these places again, matching the original viewpoints as closely as possible. Everything that happened in the Balkans fits between the two images.

About the author

Cătălin D. Constantin

Visual anthropologist · University of Bucharest

For more than ten years, with close friends, he has retraced the Manakia brothers’ photographs from the same angles in the Aromanian villages of the Balkans. He teaches anthropology at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

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