Japanese photographer reveals how he discovered Romania after the Revolution and fell in love with it

In the summer of 1990, Japanese student Norihiro Haruta was on his first visit to Romania. He came to Eastern Europe looking to see the region that had experienced a wave of revolutions a year before. After a first stop in Berlin, a three-day train trip brought him to Bucharest, a city he captured in its first post-revolution year. He tells Romania-Insider.com about his first visit to Romania and how he experienced the country during his visits.

Norihiro (Nori) Haruta started taking photos when he was a college student while traveling on holidays. Browsing photography books and magazines, attempting to replicate various works, experimenting were part of the learning process for him. “I did photography alone, learning, copying, pretending,” he explains.