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Ileana and Valerica, Sirbi, Maramures, 2013

I met most of these girls when they were babies at the millennium. Sometime in 2012, I learned the youth of the village Sarbi were beginning to socialize on Facebook. It was then when I began getting to know them, by ‘liking’ their selfies and places they ‘checked’ into. Their lives are straddled between two worlds, one of the past and one of the present. Even though they are excited to embrace the new ways of modernity (cell phones, clothing, Facebook,…) they are quite keen on donning their folk costumes, at whatever expense or occasion.