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Children’s Section, Gradinari House

Isabel Ellsen

Art & Photography
Granta 33
3rd June 1990

Gradinari House is thirty kilometres from Bucharest. One hundred and fifteen children live here. Some suffer from mental illness; others are orphans.

Isabel Ellsen

Isabel Ellsen is a photographer and journalist. She lives in Cologne.

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