Since 1997 – when I was 23 years old and still a student - I have been playing with photography: first, as a passionate traveler, to catch the natural beauty discovered all around our country, and then as a Math teacher, playing with my pupils, and step by step, as a businessman, as I have developed together my wife a souvenir factory based on my photos.
A few years ago, I decided to take this play more seriously, so I have extended my “photo games” into more fields: portraits, events, countryside life, and street life.
My passion is to capture real life, therefore we travel a lot to discover it all over the world in different cultures. I like to try new techniques, to be creative, but I like to search for the right moment and light and not prepare it.
I consider photography a visual art of speaking, an international language capable of capturing, absorbing the moment, and further exposing to everyone the entire story behind and around that specific second. Each frame is a visual story “told” through the photographer’s eye, feeling, and ability.
In 2016 I started to "test" my photos in international and national photo contests. Until now I have counted more than 500 prizes in about 50 countries, 3 trophies, and 7 times “Best Author”.
Since 2018 I have joined Varadinum Foto Club and I have been a member of juries at 7 International Photo Contests.
EFIAP Silver, C***Mol, E.AAFR, GPU 3 CROWN

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