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A hair stylist lifts a curtain revealing stored wigs inside a dressing room in the Tiraspol Theater in Tiraspol, Moldova on 11 April 2009.

A worker inside a wlanut packing factory pauses in Chisinau, Moldova on 27 May 2009.

A boy cleans his room in on graduation day at the Gymnasia-Internat Number 2 boarding school in Chisinau, Moldova on 29 May 2009. The school has over 500 children living on the campus. Around 80% are social orphans – children whose parents are…

A prisoner with HIV lays in his bed in the medical ward of the Tiraspol prison coloney in the Transnistria region of Moldova on 10 April 2009.

Soviet era residential apartment buildings seen in Chisinau, Moldova on 26 May 2009.

Moldova is the poorest country in Europe. It also has the distinction of being the only former Soviet country to have voted the Communist Party back in to power through democratic elections. Apparatchiks and ex-KGB agents from Soviet times have…

Bernard checks on Mary after she called out for him late at night. Bernard likes to stay up at night and Mary gets frightened when she goes to bed alone. The care he must provide her with is never ending.

Morning light illuminates the skin on Mary Triplet's back. She is utterly dependent on Bernard helping her. When asked about it, Bernard says, ' She's put up with me and all the things that I've done wrong. I just know I have to look out for her.'

Mary Triplet gazes up at Bernard with confusion as he gestures with frustration trying to explain where they are. Bernard says he has lost all patience because of the constant care Mary requires. A rough and tumble man in his youth, he is now forced…

Mary gives Bernard a kiss. She often thinks Bernard is her son and scolds him, however, he is one of her only links to reality. He doesn’t want to put her in a nursing home because he wants her at home where he can take care of her. The ammount of…