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Dear friend,
Welcome to my portfolio site, the only place where I upload my photos and keep a small blog with things I create. Thank you for your visit and have a beautiful day!
Cristian.

All photos and text on this site © 2005-2022 Cristian Bassa. For prints or other inquiries please email me at: cristian.bassa@gmail.com


Short bio:
CRISTIAN BASSA (based in Bucharest) works in the banking industry. He attended photography courses of various Romanian photography schools and photojournalism & documentary classes.
Cristian is also a designer and editor of photo books. He was editor of FOTO4ALL (2015-2016), Oitzarisme (2014-2016), CRITICAL MESS (2016 – 2018). Cristian initiated and conducted photo projects for social purposes & charities, initiatives that were finalized in personal exhibitions. He is passionate about photography as a way of expression and as a documentary force. He has long term projects on both film and on digital medium. Cristian organizes events and photographic meetings, including series of photography exhibitions on the film “Argentik” 1-3 editions, “Clasa de Fotografie” 1-3 series. He is co-organizer of Bucharest Photo Week 2016, 2017. Cristian is part of the visual documentary group Fountains of Oltenia – vernacular monuments, group made up of researchers and photographers, who aim to identify, recover history and photograph the fountains in rural Oltenia. He is also part of OMNIA PHOTO.

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 Vrabiuta – 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 Garlesteanu – Dincolo de creativitate si fotografie”, book – editor, design
2021 – “Dragos Costachescu – Guten morgen Betzingen”, photobook – editor, selection, sequencing
2022 – “Cristina Garlesteanu – The Flight Odyssey”, photobook – editor, selection, sequencing
2022 – “OMNIA PHOTO – FANTANILE 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

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

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, Bucuresti, 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 in Fotografia de Strada, Universitatea din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Istorie, sectia de Istoria Artei – lector
2015 – Estetica in fotografia de strada, Photo Romania Festival – lector
2014 – 2015 – “Clasa de Fotografie II”, curs fotografie – lector
2016 – 2018 – MasterClass One-on-one Albert Vrabiuta, 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.