My name is Elena Raceala and I live in Constanta, a city located in Romania, on the Black Sea shore and I consider myself a world citizen. I work as a nurse at the County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Constanta.
I describe my work as Fine Art with surreal, grunge, or poetry valency.
Photography is emotion. I can't say exactly how and when the click happened, but on one of my trips to Italy in 2013, on a rainy morning, I took the first photo I'm very attached to. From that moment on, part of me lives through photography. The transition from travel and street photography to Fine Art was made out of the desire to express my vision, my message. I want to convey through my images the emotion of discovering the perspective of a moment, of a story without words. Life inspires me, people with joys or difficult moments, sometimes my compositions resemble the human condition in which light and darkness live together. I like to look for new places that will surprise me, but I like the human presence, the usual moments, from everyday life, moments that I then expose in a black and white vision. Every moment is unique, I stop at what my heart tells me that I can portray them in a visual story. What I want is for the emotion I felt when I took the photo to reach the one who sees it. The story does not stop here, I want to touch the conceptual side as well as other photographic projects in the future.
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