REFLECTIONS

Reflections began as an attempt to create a personal homage to Saul Leiter.

I went out with the camera expecting to photograph reflections in the traditional sense: fragments of people, colours and moments filtered through glass. But while walking through Bucharest, I found something else.

The reflections themselves gradually became secondary. What caught my attention were the layers that existed between the viewer and the subject: graffiti-covered windows, peeling paint, dust, scratches, tape, posters, stains and years of accumulated neglect.

People appeared only in fragments. Faces dissolved into textures. Bodies merged with the surfaces surrounding them. The city seemed to reveal itself not through direct observation but through layers of interference.

What emerged was less a project about reflections and more a project about obscured visibility. About how urban life is filtered through the surfaces we rarely pay attention to.

The photographs in this series explore these visual layers and the relationship between presence and absence, clarity and obstruction. They document a city where every window becomes a canvas and every reflection carries traces of the world around it.