My childhood village

βalkan Urban League w/o Borders

The Bulb Collective has been founded in January 2015 by Michail after an Open Day held in Bucharest. Since 2015 the collective has widen its geographical scope and it presently consists of photographers from 6 countries in the Balkans.

The collective consists of photographers active in urban (and rural) photography with an expressive shift to include highly aesthetic and poetic images in their assignments.

They share the same vision but not the same perspective which gives the necessary "polyphony" in their extremely ambitious endeavour to cover all the aspects of the Balkan neorealism.

Their visual signatures aspire to create iconic images and to be the best in metamorphosing and interpreting all aspects of life in this highly contradictory and fascinating part of the world.

4/6/2019

My childhood village

This is the place where my soul grew in harmony with nature; where my soul understood it's impulse to create. It is the place where I lived my childhood.

I think it’s important for a child to be in direct contact with nature and animals. This connections allowed me to understand emotionally and subconsciously how to be a free being.

I could even say that nature was my teacher - it taught me how to create. I'm very thankful that I spent my childhood there.

My drive for photography has it's roots in this place and I often came back here to catch new images of it’s evolution. I made connections with a very few people here.

For most of its old and mature people the village it's not bad, neither good - it is what it is. But for the teenagers it's a place they cannot wait to escape from, dreaming about the cool life of the big cities. (photos and text by Ruxandra Petre)