Gheorghe Popa is a photographer from Transylvania, Romania, whose work has been published in National Geographic, Natuurfotografie Magazine, Elements Magazine, and On Landscape. He is the recipient of several international awards, including the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year (Mention) and the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
In 1977, over four hundred families living in Geamăna village in the Apuseni Mountains of western Romania were evacuated to make room for a tailings pond for the country’s largest copper mine. Forty years later, Romanian photographer Gheorghe Popa captured the effects of the toxic runoff, a strange beauty at the heart of an ecological disaster.
Step further into the changes enveloping us with Vol 4. Shifting Landscapes. The voices gathered here bear witness to the Earth’s changing face and offer ways to orient ourselves in this time of great loss, possibility, and transformation. Spanning 275 pages, this issue is our most photographic to date and includes a special practice insert.
