Silviu Pavel
Photographer / Based in Bucharest, Romania
Silviu Pavel
b.1980, based in Buchaest, Romania
After having graduated with a Masters degree in Telecommunication from the Bucharest Politechnic University in 2005, I started to study photography and for this purpose I attended and graduated from two private photography schools „Universitatea Dalles” and „Scoala de Poetica Fotografica – Francisc Mraz” after a period of three years of studies. Currently I am a student in Philosophy at University of Bucharest in the second year of studies.
I am not a professional photographer since my income comes entirely from the engineering business, but still I succeeded in the last four years to travel and work on personal photography projects. I am attracted by documentary photography and I try to find stories that would combine both an aestetic approach and an original subject. My first long term project started in Romania by documenting the life of people living in Dobrogea county – a poor region in the South of Romania. It has been already three years, but this is a project that I’d like to continue also in the future years. Outside Europe I’ve travelled to India, Brazil and United States where I tried to document social aspects of the every day life. Some of these were presented in exhibitions and publications.
Personal Exhibitions:
- 2012 - “Series”, Art Yourself Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2012 - “India”, Green Hours Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2009 - Plano B Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Group Exhibitions:
- 2011 - “L’inconvenient d’etre ne?”, ICR, Rue de l’Exposition Gallery, Paris, France
- 2011 - “Olhares Romenos Sobre Lisboa”, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa and at Instiuto Camoes , Lisbon, Portugal
- 2010 - “Baroc de Dobrogea 2008-2010”, Dimitrie Gusti Museum, Bucharest, Romania
- 2009 - “Anul 2009”, Carturesti Library, Bucharest, Romania
Online Publications:
Foto4all Magazine (May 2012), Cuvinte Libere (Feb 2012), Invisible Photographer Asia (Nov 2011), Verve (Aug 2010), Camera Obscura (Jun 2010), nSphere Magazine (May 2010), 591Photography (Mar 2012, Jan 2010), Mas y Mas (Oct 2009), Nisimazine (Oct 2009)