Ianaki and Milton Manakia were born into a Vlach shepherd family in the mid-19th century in Avdela, a village in […]

To identify the settlements photographed in 1900, I relied on old maps and contemporary accounts, including a book about the

Unlike Avdela and many other villages photographed by the Manakia brothers, Syrrako, a stone settlement, appears to be frozen in

About Moscopole, Wace and Thomson note: “Its merchants had branch houses in Venice, Vienna, and Budapest. Locally it is believed

In August 2017, on the day I was supposed to leave Bucharest with my American colleague for another episode of

Prejudice makes us believe that nature today is less alive and present than it was in the past. One of

After Kruševo, the journey tracing the Manakia brothers’ photographs led to Trnovo (Târnova in Vlach) and Magarevo (Magarova in Vlach),

This was the easiest to locate among the photographs of Vlach villages taken by the Manakia brothers around 1900. It

About Smiksi, Wace and Thompson write: “Smiksi is a picturesque village of about a hundred houses and, as it lies

Some places stubbornly resist being photographed. But I was stubborn too.I first arrived in Turia – Krania, in Greek –