Year: 2012

Caragiale and Bucharest

As I said before, the Caragiale festival is happening in the old city of Bucharest and is going to last all summer long, now it was an adaptation upon a series of his sketches.

caragiale festival

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Stavropoleos

I am a true citizen of Bucharest so I have a love-hate relation with my city, I may ridicule it, I may despise it, but sometime I like it and in special cases I may even love it. Here is the Stavropoleos street in a hot Sunday late-afternoon to early-evening, with the Stavropoleos Monastery on the left and Caru’ cu Bere ahead.

stavropoleos

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Hostel Miorita

Believe or not, this is emblematic for the city of Bucharest, the picture is taken on the Lipscani street in the old city, the main touristic attraction.

hostel miorita

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Traian and the shewolf

Is a national sport in Romania to ridicule this horrible statue that appeared recently on the stair of the National History Museum in Bucharest, so I had to join the ranks and do my share. A couple of lovers versus a Roman emperor and a female wolf.

statue

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Shoes versus shoes

No words, just shoes.

shoes versus
shoes versus

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BIAS 2012: the audience

Thousands of people came to see the Bucharest International Air Show and, at least in the eye of a people photographer, they offered on the ground a spectacle just as good as the one in the sky.

air show
air show
air show
air show
air show
air show

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BIAS 2012: the flight

There are so many images from the Bucharest International Air Show 2012 which took place last week-end at the Băneasa airport and they are everywhere, that I think everybody is probably bored by now, so my post will be short, concise and NOT focused on colored fog trails.

air show
air show
air show
air show
air show
air show

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Triptych sneak preview

A preview of my pictures for the Triptych photo exhibition to be opened in a few weeks. Called Fishmongers is a series of street photos from my Indian trip.

preview

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Photo exibition: Triptych

In the last few days I worked preparing the technical side of a group photo exhibition, called Triptych, where 21 photographers and a painter will expose their creation made from 3 images. The opening is Monday 6 August 2012 19:00 at the Serendipity tea house in Bucharest.

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Smell the sunflowers

This year the heat is strong and long lasting, all the vegetation has a heavy fight for survival, so it probably was the last opportunity of the year to capture some sunflower pictures.

sunflower
sunflower
sunflower

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Free Hugs = normal = good

We struggle at near 40°C, the politics around us are in turmoil, still people want a normal life, they try to ignore the problems and go forward. Last Saturday a bunch of kids organized an event (the second year in a row) called “Free Hugs – Summer Love” where they offered hugs around the Herastrau Park in Bucharest.

free hugs
free hugs
free hugs
free hugs

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Brâncoveanu = Mogoșoaia

Even there are numerous other buildings in the Brâncovenesc style, the Mogoșoaia palace is the biggest and the most known, is the emblem of this style.

mogosoaia

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Druganescu, making of

In the abandoned mansion the rooms were empty still, we found somewhere a mirror. Just what we needed before taking pictures.

mirror

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Incursion at the Druganescu mansion

The Drugănescu mansion is a monument emblematic for the Brâncovenesc style, but now is empty and abandoned. So an incursion there was not very easy (but not very difficult either).

druganescu

The building reminded me by a haunted house from classic horror movies and the inscription on some inside door “section chef” made my imagination jump to abandoned psychiatric facilities (I have no idea what it was used for under the communist regime).
But beside the spectacular columns in the cellar, it had an even more spectacular loft, just good for a mini photo-session.

druganescu

druganescu

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Politics in the summer

The coup d’etat in Bucharest evolved to the point the German chancellor, called it unacceptable: the rogue government went beyond the law and suspended a democratically elected president. The street protest continued, but they also chanced, the peaceful protests in Piața Victoriei were took over by a small political party in its hunger for audience, with activists, flags, T-shirts, noise, megaphones and everything. Since that party has its own propaganda machine and I wasn’t there to endorse a party, my coverage will pause. I will probably cover other major events in the meantime, like the big presidential support demonstration and will certainly go and vote in the referendum.

anticommunist
anticommunist
anticommunist
anticommunist
anticommunist
anticommunist
anticommunist

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