Of all the photography genres, documentary photography is among my favorites. Just like a good book, documentary photography tells stories by engaging the senses and the mind and takes me to a journey at the end of which I find myself to be a little different from the person I was before experiencing it. Documentary…
Cosmin Bumbuț is a romanian photographer who used to work in the fashion and advertising industry. He later gave up this lifestyle and decided to switch to documentary photography and live in a camper. I’ve talked to him about his decision to make that move, how it is to live as a freelancer and the…
SHORT PROFILE Name: Vicențiu Dîngă Occupation: Public Relations Manager Twitter: @thisisvince Tell me a bit about yourself and your background. I’m a 27 year old Romanian guy who’s been living in Amsterdam for the past 5 years, having come here for a Master’s degree back in 2012 and who never left. Since then, I’ve gone through a few…
SHORT PROFILE Name: Andreea Vasile Occupation: Writer Tagline: So much to live, so little time. Andreea, do you always tell the truth in your writing? I always tell my truth. And sometimes I manage to also tell The Truth, the kind of truth that feels real to everyone, no matter who they are or where…
Cristina is a Bucharest based art director and illustrator. She’s been working in advertising for several years and when the job hours are over she goes home and puts on the freelancer cape. She has worked with big brands, like Martini and Philip Morris International, but also for magazines, non-profit organisations and small start-ups. Chris is…
Meet Laura. She is a creative textile designer based in Leeds who studied textiles at A-level, went on to art college to do a foundation, then studied textile design (specialising in knit) at Huddersfield. I’ve had a few weird jobs since then. I designed socks in my gap year, travelled to South Africa and designed…
Mircea Reștea is a contributing photographer for Documentaria, a project created to showcase, through documentary photography, written stories and infographics, fragments of reality of Romanian life. Mircea has been a photojournalist for seventeen years and starting with 2013 he’s been working as a freelancer. The main focus of the Elections 2014, a project created by the…
Ciprian, 37, started photographing at 29. Because he discovered late what he really wanted to do, he says now he has to work hard to make up for the lost time. For him documentary photography means to depict reality through simple, powerful and straightforward images, in order to show as much as possible the truth of…
Leila Johnston is among those people I don’t personally know, but I find her terribly interesting and inspiring. The first time I discovered her was through Hack Circus, a peculiar and mesmerizing magazine, in the sense that I haven’t read something like it before and I was completely hooked from the first pages. In her…
Once upon a time when I was a lime, I met a sea monster with a jelly blaster. “Augh, augh, augh”, he cried and I tried and tried to turn back the time, save him with some thyme. But I was just a lime. *img made with Canva