Victoria Colesnic reports on social issues in the Republic of Moldova. She has worked for several independent media outlets in Moldova and Romania, where she produced multimedia stories on domestic violence, mental health, unemployment, migration, and LGBT rights. For the last year, she was a local correspondent for VICE Romania. She is currently working for the Moldovan service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, as a Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellow. Victoria Colesnic, together with Are We Europe team and local storytellers, produced „The Drums of Democracy”, an in-depth multimedia story about corruption, the economic crisis and the young activists fighting for democracy.

 

Victoria is part of the Are We Europe Collective,  which was founded to support emerging creative talent in Europe and promote cross-border storytelling.

 

Ramin was born on the left bank of river Dniester in the Moldovan Soviet Republic. Since 1991, the territory now known as Transnistria is an unrecognised, self-declared state. Graduating in Journalism from the Moldovan State University in Chisinau, he worked for different print outlets as a photo reporter. The lack of appreciation for photojournalism in local media pushed him to start working on independent projects and series. After participating in the “Human Rights and Photography Magnum Foundation Scholarship” he focused mostly on independent storytelling by capturing how Moldova and nearby countries deal with transition.

 

Ramin is part of the Are We Europe Collective,  which was founded to support emerging creative talent in Europe and promote cross-border storytelling.