CONTACT – BASSA.RO

Short bio [EN/RO]:
Cristian BASSA is a photographer, designer, editor, and photobook enthusiast. Cristian has initiated and conducted four social photography projects for charitable organizations, initiatives that culminated in solo exhibitions or photo albums. He is the co-organizer of the Romanian Photobook Award and the Bucharest Photo Week festival, and the author of two documentary photography research volumes, “Beautiful Sunrise” and “Forward March“. Between 2016 and 2025, he carried out visual documentation of water wells in the Oltenia region alongside Dorian Delureanu, resulting in three photo albums and two exhibitions supported by The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant and The Museum of Oltenia.

Cristian BASSA este fotograf, designer, editor și pasionat de volume de fotografie. Cristian a inițiat și desfășurat patru proiecte de fotografie în scopuri sociale pentru organizații caritabile, inițiative care au fost finalizate și cu expoziții personale sau albume foto, este co-organizator al Romanian Photobook Award, al festivalului Bucharest Photo Week, autor a două volume de cercetare fotografică documentară „Beautiful Sunrise” și „Forward March”. În perioada 2016-2025 a realizat activități de documentare vizuală a fântânilor din Oltenia împreună cu Dorian Delureanu, trei albume foto și două expoziții cu sprijinul Muzeului Național al Țăranului Român și al Muzeului Olteniei.

Detailed bio:
Publications & Editorial work
2014-2016 – Oitzarisme.ro, online photography magazine – editor
2015-2016 – Foto4All.ro, online photography magazine – editor
2016-2018 – CRITICALMESS.ro, online photography magazine – editor
2016 Paul Musescu – s1xte6n, photobook – editor, design
2016 Oliver Merce – The Anatomy Of Decay, photobook – editor, design
2018 RGB Photography – Inapoi la Alb si Negru, photobook – editor, design
2018 Albert Vrăbiuță – Dacia 50 Autoturismul, photobook – editor, design
2019 Oliver Merce – For You, photobook – editor, design
2019 Cristian Bassa – BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE, photobook – author, editor, design
2020 Cristina Irian – Strata|B, photobook – editor, design
2021 Cristian Bassa – FORWARD MARCH, photobook – author, editor, design
2021 Cristina Gârleșteanu – Dincolo de creativitate și fotografie, book – editor, design
2021 Dragoș Costăchescu – Guten morgen Betzingen, photobook – editor, selection, sequencing
2022 Cristina Gârleșteanu – The Flight Odyssey, photobook – editor, selection, sequencing
2022 OMNIA PHOTO – FÂNTÂNILE OLTENIEI MMXVI, photobook – author, editor, selection, sequencing
2022 Oliver Merce – DOGS, photobook – editor, design, selection, sequencing
2022 Cristian Bassa – qpb 001, print – author, editor, design
2022 Cristian Bassa – qpb 002, print – author, editor, design, photography
2023 OMNIA PHOTO – mili-eu: Ileana, Mr. B’s grandmother, exhibition notebook – editor, design, photography
2023 Cosmin Gârleșteanu – BUCHAREST, photobook – editor, concept, selection, sequencing
2024 OMNIA PHOTO – FÂNTÂNILE OLTENIEI MMXVII, photobook – author, editor, selection, sequencing, concept
2024 Oliver Merce – ACT OF FAITH, photobook – editor
2024 Dorian Delureanu – 09.05.98 – ORESTIA – O repetiție cu Silviu Purcărete, photobook – editor
2024 Cristian Bassa – CHAMP, photobook – author, editor, design
2025 Tudor Drăgan – Băile Someșeni / Someșeni Baths, photobook – editor
2025 Cosmin Gârleșteanu – BUCHAREST, reprint, photobook – editor, concept, selection, sequencing
2025 Oliver Merce – ALONG THE BEGA RIVER, photobook – editor (OMNIA PHOTO), concept, selection, sequencing
2025 OMNIA PHOTO – FÂNTÂNILE OLTENIEI MMXIX, photobook – author, editor, selection, sequencing, concept

Organized events
2014-2016 Argentik I, II, III – film street photography event – organizer
2015-2018 F64 Storytelling events – co-organizer
2016 Bucharest Photo Week – photography festival – co-organizer
2017-present – CRITICAL MESS meetings, organizer
2017 Bucharest Photo Week – photography festival – co-organizer
2025 Romanian Photobook Award – Photographic Project Section – project director, co-organizer

Projects
2011-2015 – The Poetic Cats/Pisicile Poetice I – IV, charitable photographic project benefiting the animals and promoting animal therapy for children with special needs, Bucharest, Sibiu – organizer, photographer
2019-2021 – “Fountains of the South” documentary project – organizer, photographer
2016-present – “Fountains of Oltenia” documentary project – organizer, photographer

Seminars / Workshops
2011-2012 – “Clasa de Fotografie I”, photography class – lector
2013 Notiuni introductive in estetica fotografica, Universitatea din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Istorie, sectia de Istoria Artei – lector
2014 Estetica în fotografia de stradă, Universitatea din București, Facultatea de Istorie, secția de Istoria Artei – lector
2015 Estetica în fotografia de stradă, Photo Romania Festival – lector
2014-2015 “Clasa de Fotografie II”, curs fotografie – lector
2016-2018 MasterClass One-on-one Albert Vrabiută, proiect “DACIA 50” – lector

Photo exhibitions
Various single and group photography exhibitions

Support
If you want to support this blog and its author, you can do so, by buying (for you or for someone else) any of my photobooks, joining my workshops, getting an issue of qpb, or you can donate in IBAN: RO76INGB0000999900147565 Name: Cristian Bassa Currency: RON.