On 22 December 1989, Romania's communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in a violent revolution and fled from the capital, Bucharest. Three days later, he and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad. It was the last of the popular uprisings against communist rule in eastern Europe that year.
Mozambique digging for fire
Unwelcome Guests. Albania Refugees cross the border into northern Greece with no food and no idea of what awaits them
No Salmon No Food Arranmore Island Ireland
Jalalabad Pakistan
February 1992. Kurdistan close to the border with Iraq in an area held by Peshmerga guerillas. Many families are close to stavation as UN delays meeting on humatarian aid.
The small enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is an Ethnically Armenian area of Azerbaijan. For many years the people of Nagorno-Karabakh have been at war with their Armenian neighbours.
Winter Near Spring Far Away, from the words of a poem by Mihai Eminescu, a famous romanian poet. On 22 December 1989, Romania's communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in a violent revolution and fled from the capital, Bucharest. Three days later, he and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad. It was the last of the popular uprisings against communist rule in eastern Europe that year.
After the euphoria of Solidarity's victory in free elections in Poland and the Velvet Revolution in Prague, this was different. The Romanian revolution was the last, and the bloodiest, in the whole region. It came to a head on Christmas Day, when the dictator and his wife were executed. This is a series of photographs taken in January 1999 as people came to terms with the new world order that surrounded them.
