




images that haunt us








Colecția Costică Acsinte / Costică Acsinte Archive
Costică Acsinte (sometimes spelled Axinte) was a romanian war photographer who, after discharge, opened a studio in Slobozia, IL.
These are part of a project about digitizing Acsinte’s glass plate negatives, supported by Asociația Culturală Atelierele Albe and Muzeul Județean Ialomița. Project website








A woman sits on top of a large white anthill, some of which can rise up to 40 feet high, near Elizabethville in the former Belgian Congo. The image was taken for a story in the October 1922 issue about a navy operation in Africa during World War I (National Geographic / Nat Geo). Photograph by Frank J. Magee.







