Romania's capital city, Bucharest, displays an elegant past that, after 40 years of communism and corruption, is now reaching levels of decay that may defy renovation. Over the past ten years, I have tried to create a parallel between the image of Princess Brianna Caradja, whose aristocratic family was driven out of Romania by politics, and of the capital city that is crumbling both physically and socially. With my journalistic background, I attempt to mirror the forgotten, ignored grandeur of both the physical and social institutions of my homeland.
Romania's capital city, Bucharest, displays an elegant past that, after 40 years of communism and corruption, is now reaching levels of decay that may defy renovation. Over the past ten years, I have tried to create a parallel between the image of Princess Brianna Caradja, whose aristocratic family was driven out of Romania by politics, and of the capital city that is crumbling both physically and socially. With my journalistic background, I attempt to mirror the forgotten, ignored grandeur of both the physical and social institutions of my homeland.
Romania's capital city, Bucharest, displays an elegant past that, after 40 years of communism and corruption, is now reaching levels of decay that may defy renovation. Over the past ten years, I have tried to create a parallel between the image of Princess Brianna Caradja, whose aristocratic family was driven out of Romania by politics, and of the capital city that is crumbling both physically and socially. With my journalistic background, I attempt to mirror the forgotten, ignored grandeur of both the physical and social institutions of my homeland.
IMPRESSIONS
SYNAPSES
Synapses is a collection that seeks to challenge the traditional realism of photography.
With this collection, I have tried to take highly symbolic images, or at times very ambiguous and suggestive images, and placed them in a context that is foreign, that allows each individual to interpret meaning or emotion, based on their own life experience. Some may see joy, others fear, sadness, hope….
Combining photographs with digital painting, I have tried to mimic what happens in each of our brains. Tied together with filaments, each image shows motion, the impulses that connect memories to experiences.
As you experience this collection, allow yourself to make your own connections. Look for your own answers, your own mystery, your own symbolic vocabulary. The experience will be your own.
