The young photographer from Romania, published in The New York Times and Le Monde, talks about her art: "Nothing brings me greater inspiration than life itself"
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- 14 Apr 2023
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"It's my way of expressing myself and living," says Felicia Simion about the art she makes. The 28-year-old photographer has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde and Vogue Portugal and has launched a series of personal projects stemming from her own experiences, where women are the central symbol.
"I don't have an "agenda"; I want the viewer to feel free in front of my photos", says the young photographer about the message she wants to convey. One of her most famous projects is called "Postpartum" and it came out of a period of postnatal depression, which she went through herself.
"Photography is life, a huge inner force" Felicia Simion was born in Craiova, in 1994, and moved to Bucharest in 2013, where she graduated from the National University of Arts, photo-video section. Then he finished a master's degree in Ethnology, cultural anthropology and folklore at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest.
He fell in love with photography at the age of 13, when he was in the 6th grade, "between chemistry homework and missed guitar lessons." "I simply woke up one day, went to my family in the kitchen and told them that I know what I want to do, I want to become a photographer. And that's where it all started," she recalls. Read More…
