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January 4, 2019 — Comments are off for this post.

Reading recommendations from the People and Books project

A few years ago I worked on a project called People and Books which involved meeting with lots of people and making their portrait along one of their favourite books. From those encounters I give you some of my favorite portraits and a short list of reading recommendations you might enjoy.

Oana recommends Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Cristina recommends The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Sandra recommends The night circus by Erin Morgenstern

Andreas recommends Thus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Adela recommends The tibetan book of the dead

Anca recommends Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Claudiu recommends Just kids by Patti Smith

Tags: people and books, portrait, reading recommendation

November 20, 2018 — Comments are off for this post.

Behind The Click. Episode 3: The Black Cat

A series of recollections about the Why behind the photo. The fragments and questions that come with it. All at once or one after the other. The story seeds that follow before and after the photograph is made.

Woolwich 2018. © Ioana Bîrdu

I see many of them in the nearabouts of where I live. Most wear black and white or just black, like this one. She’s always there, on the shortcut, observing the world from the windowsill in some sort of contemplative meditation.

When I pass her by I wave or smile and by the way she looks at me, I know she says hi back.

This portrait is a gift to her, something to remember me by.

I hope she likes it.

Episode 1: The fish stall

Episode 2: Mannequins

Tags: behind the click, cat, film photography, lomography

November 13, 2018 — Comments are off for this post.

Behind the click, episode 2: Mannequins

A series of recollections about the Why behind the photo. The fragments and questions that come with it. All at once or one after the other. The story seeds that follow before and after the photograph is made.

There is a certain mystery surrounding mannequins. It's there every time I'm near them, a secret life they live and we, oblivious, just pass them by. Replicas used to display, they are in fact observers, witnesses of our world.

The eight above, I wonder what is it they've lost; that empty space above their chest. Is that the reason for their contempt?

And as I make their portrait an unsettling thought takes shape - what if they know I know?

Episode 1: The fish stall

Episode 3: The black cat

Tags: behind the click, street photography, woolwich