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Table of Contents

Interview with Cosmin Garlesteanu

Searching for My Very Own Rue Mouffetard

Women in Street Photography: Show Yourselves!

The Struggle of Young Migrant Workers

Las Calles

Stereograms

Street Shooters of June 2022

Interview with Cosmin Garlesteanu

This month, we are completing the second of a pair of interviews, one that completes the first married street photography duo we’ve featured. You may remember our interview with Cristina Garlesteanu as part of our Year of Women Street Photographers. (You can find her interview in our March 2021 issue.) This month we had the chance to talk with her husband, Cosmin Garlesteanu, who is also a talented street photographer.

Cosmin and Cristina live in Bucharest, Romania. This city has become the focus of Cosmin’s hometown series, a series that is filled with such wonder and so many interesting characters, you would think it was taken by a visitor instead of someone whose eyes have grown accustomed to the people and places that make up the city where he was born and raised. But this hasn’t been an easy project for Cosmin by any means. Bob and Cosmin talked at length about how it can feel so much easier to photograph cities when you travel and the effort it takes to see your own hometown with fresh eyes. Cosmin says sometimes the people seem too common and the places too familiar, but it is a matter of trying to be less ignorant and more observant.

Bob and Cosmin also talked about accepting criticism, B&W images, what it’s like when your spouse is a street photographer too, how to capture the essence of your subject, shooting with short lenses (the best zoom is your own two feet!), and many other topics. Listen in to get to know the second half of the dynamic Garlesteanu duo.

A Selection of Cosmin’s Color Photos

A Selection of Cosmin’s B&W Photos

Cosmin Garlesteanu

I live in Bucharest, Romania. I’m 37 and I’m addicted to photography. Especially street photography. When I was a boy, I was dreaming of becoming a choreographer or to work in the music industry, but I ended up graduating from the Academy of Economic Studies. A total loss of time. I didn’t like it at all. As a student, I started working as an editor and voice over for a radio station, and after graduation I found a job in television. Again, a creative medium. Nowadays I’m still in television, working as a video editor. I like to believe that photography is the best medicine, at hand and quite cheap. And it goes very well with music. For the last 3 years I’ve been and admin of the international street photography group OnSpot. During all this time I had the pleasure to promote excellent photographers and I got to learn a lot from them. I was part of various street photography exhibitions, as those from the Miami, London, Milano or Brussels festivals.

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Articles
June 2022

Interview with Cosmin Garlesteanu

An audio interview with a photographer who knows how to see the familiar with fresh eyes.

Searching for My Very Own Rue Mouffetard

Thomas Hackenberg scours the streets for that one special photo.

Women in Street Photography: Show Yourselves!

Women street photographers are on the rise and it's time to get involved!

The Struggle of Young Migrant Workers

Shahnawaz Alam documents the lives of young men who must travel to work.

Las Calles

Tracy Dong takes to the colorful "calles" of Oaxaca.

Stereograms

Matt Brass' collection of like, opposite, and complimentary moments.

Street Shooters of June 2022

Images submitted by community members from around the world.

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