FORWARD MARCH
FORWARD MARCH
Photos, text, design: Cristian Bassa
Editors: Ana-Cristina Irian, Philip Charrier
Publishing house: Editura Omnia Photo, 2021
ISBN 978-606-94598-3-6
new blog post jan 2021
(arguably the most uninspired blog post title so far, but hey! I can do better, just you wait..) The author in me is happy he succeeded in finishing the text, selection and sequence for the second upcoming photobook. Decided to avoid text in photobooks as much as possible. The new… Read More »new blog post jan 2021
Cristina Irian – STRATA|B
“STRATA|B is a story of a fragment of Bucharest, a time-frame and digital spaces. Back in 2014 there was a time when interactions between people and the walls of buildings in a part of the old city center were meticulously recorded. I visited these walls, or what was left of them, on a regular basis, and photographed them as old acquaintances.”
BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE
“My project is about young individuals making an honest living and striving to build a future for themselves in Romania, a European country still lagging behind in development since 1989, the year of democracy restoration, where the gap between the upper and lower classes is more visible every day. It is a country where society, schools, the media and the internet feed the notion that working should not be the first option for young people; where many are mesmerized by the possibility of becoming rich and famous quickly, without effort. ”
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Oliver Merce – For You
“As for the hands, without which all action would be crippled and enfeebled, it is scarcely possible to describe the variety of their motions, since they are almost as expressive as words. For other portions of the body may help the speaker, whereas the hands may almost be said to speak.”