Photographer Uses Everyday Objects to Frame His Subjects
Framing is everything in photography. But one creative shooter takes framing to a whole other level by looking for everyday objects to shoot through.
Shooting One of the Most Beautiful Abandoned Buildings in the World
Once this was the most glorious building of Romania but since 1990 it’s been abandoned and slowly but surely falling apart. The building is now listed as a historic monument by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania.
Portraits of 10 Different Lives in 10 Identical Units of a Communist-Era Apartment
Bogdan Gîrbovan is a photographer who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania, a city in which 70% of the housing consists of convenient cookie-cutter apartment blocks.
For his project 10/1, Gîrbovan selected one apartment building and shot portraits of the 10 different lives being lived in 10 identical apartments.
‘People of the Pit’ Captures a Disappearing Community on the Outskirts of Bucharest
Dubbed The Last People of the Pit, this documentary photography series by photographer Sorin Vidis attempts to preserve in images what remains of a community that has made its home in an urban oasis on the outskirts of Bucharest.
One Man’s Quest to Save a Haunting 5,000-Portrait Archive from the Clutches of Time
For going on two decades after the end of World War I, Costica Ascinte was quite possibly the only professional photographer in all of Romania. He continued to work right up until his death in 1984, by which point he had accumulated over 5,000 glass plate negatives and several hundred prints -- a visual history of the Romanian people and a culture that, we know from previous articles, may soon be gone for good.
Unfortunately, this massive, culturally-rich archive is slowly disappearing as time and improper storage take their toll. But one man, Cezar Popescu, is determined to rescue whatever is still salvageable, and is well on his way to digitizing the entire archive even as it deteriorates before his very eyes.
The Transformation of a Post-Communist Country Documented in Haunting Photos
Almost 25 years later, the country of Romania is still in the midst of a difficult transformation from one of the region’s hardest dictatorships to a modern European nation. A transformation that photographer Tamas Dezso masterfully captures in his series Notes for an Epilogue.
Brothers Surprise Mom by Recreating Her Favorite Photos 20 Years Later
Romanian bothers Toma and Paul Alexandru were trying to think of a creative surprise for their mother Simona's 55th birthday when it dawned on them that she might enjoy seeing her favorite photos of the pair... shall we say... updated.
So, 20 years later, they set out to all the old holiday locations to re-shoot all of their mom's favorite photos again, leading to a surprise that was equal parts funny and touching.
Photographer Shooting in an Abandoned House Pranks Teens with His Flash
Photographer Radu Dumitrescu was shooting in an abandoned house in Bucharest, Romania when …
Intimate Portraits from Inside a Romanian Women’s Prison
Photographer Cosmin Bumbut was given the opportunity lead a photo workshop in one …