FRAGMENTS IN BLACK AND WHITE

When I started working on Fragments.Bucharest, I quickly realised that a single volume could not contain everything I had photographed. The city has too many faces, too many fleeting moments and too many overlapping stories to fit within one book.

Fragments in Black and White emerged as a continuation of that exploration.

Many of the photographs in this series were deliberately stripped of colour. Black and white allowed the eye to focus on form, gesture, composition and contrast. It removed distractions and brought attention to the small details that often disappear beneath the visual noise of the city.

Rather than searching for spectacular scenes or carefully constructed images, I became interested in modest moments: a person reading a newspaper, a passing gesture, a shadow crossing a wall, a brief encounter between strangers. Fragments of everyday life that exist for only a moment before disappearing again.

The photographs collected here do not attempt to present Bucharest as a complete portrait. Instead, they function as individual observations — small pieces of a larger puzzle that can never be fully assembled.

Even after years of photographing the city, I remain convinced that there are countless images still waiting to be discovered. The streets continue to change, old places disappear, new ones emerge and the city constantly rewrites itself.

This series is not a conclusion. It is simply another chapter in an ongoing attempt to observe Bucharest through its smallest and most easily overlooked details.