Wearing the inside out

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.

11/20/2019

Wearing the inside out

by Ruxandra Petre

"How much do you have to do to satisfy people who don't care anyway..." - Saul Leiter

When I photograph someone I try to find and reveal the hidden sides of that person. I think every human being has an ocean of himself on the inside. Surfing there you can uncover a new uncharted world. We are all born unique, but because of the society we live in, many of us feel the need to be less or different than they could be. And out of fear and guilt we choose to hide and lose ourselves in order to be accepted by others.

The body, the gestures, the expressions of the face are manifestations of the soul. I think that all that we do and express is driven by something that hides in our depths. What I want is to pull out a glimpse of this. I want to catch and show the special and unique sides of humans - those things, emotions, feelings that people want to deny it, hide, fake or simply can’t afford to see.