Cosmin Bumbut

b.

1968

From:

Baia Mare, Romania

Based:

Bucharest, Romania

Position:

Freelance photographer

Education:

Graduate of Film & Theatre Academy / Film Photography Dept., Bucharest, Romania

Background:

Bumbut started his career early 90s, as theatre photographer. In 2003, his “TRANSIT” was awarded “The Artbook of The Year” by the Romanian Publishers Association. Bumbut is founding member of PUNCTUM photography forum (2004) and of PUNCTUM, virtual photography magazine (2007). Exhibiting abroad regularly within the past years, Bumbut received international recognition in 2006 winning prizes from Int’l Photography Awards, New York and B&W Spider Awards. Bumbut makes his living as freelance photographer, working fashion and advertising projects. Still, he declares himself more and more attracted to photoreportage and social photography.

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Work by Cosmin Bumbut

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Cosmin Bumbut’s work sits on the fence between the old world and the new. As one frame meets the next, the viewer is at once reminded of Josef Koudelka and Luc Delahaye. Villagers wait roadside for nothing to happen; men compete in black and white impromptu bodybuilding competitions. A lone fiery window glares out from a tenement building; a specter appears in front of a crossed doorway as if barred from entry.

Bumbut’s varied and unique work is at times frustrating: his children sleep with one eye open and fall from his viewfinder into the wide, grey sea, his subjects stare at you through glazed windows and pinholes. Like Delahaye’s images, one can sense both the familiarity and the unease the photographer and subject alike have within the moments the images are made.