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…
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Lifelong learners: Laura Blackwell
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…
Interview with photojournalist Mircea Reștea
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 Hord – Out of the dark
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…
Lifelong learners: Leila Johnston
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…
The lime
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
At the pharmacy
Lavishing dandelion, thought to be hawaiian, walked into a pharmacy, fearless like a lion. Yet she didn’t find it pleasing, everybody there was sneezing. *img. made with Canva.
My mother as a book unfolding
For a big period of my life I couldn’t imagine my parents to be something other than just parents. My parents. As if they were trapped into a time frame where their only identity and purpose was to be just Mom and Dad. True, they happened to have jobs and parents of their own and…
Lifelong learners: Alexander Glonin
The first time I met Sasha I learnt he was a Russian living in Romania and that’s all I bothered to remember. After that we bumped into each other a few times, chit chatted about this and that, mostly out of politeness, and that was it as far as I was concerned. But several…
A Friday love story
something happened to my right ear for a while now, instead of singing about the stars or telling poems about flamenco dancing rhinos she sits and frowns, lingeringly and ridden. she spends her evenings watching cheesy movies, sobbing and crying, and her days sending blue heart letters on crumpled paper planes. my left foot started…