Davin Ellicson

b.

1978

From:

Berkshires, MA

Based:

London, England

Position:

Freelance photographer

Education:

BA, European History, Carleton College, 2001 / MA Photojournalism, London College of Communication, 2006

Clients:

Diplo Magazine

Background:

Davin is a freelance photographer based in England and a member of the photography collective PictureTank. Next year he plans to relocate to Paris and continue his work documenting an emerging Eastern Europe in Romania.

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Work by Davin Ellicson

Heading to market day in a neighboring village, two friends travel by horse-drawn cart, which is still the dominant mode of transportation in the region.

#13 | Romania

As Romania stands on the brink of joining the European Union in 2007, metaphorically leaping into the modern West, the small county of Maramures remains entrenched in a life of centuries old tradition.Long isolated under the rule of Nicolae Ceausecsu and its mountainous borders, the northern region is one of Europe's last guardians of its simple agrarian past.