Weekly Inspiration ✨
Artist: Ramin Mazur
Ramin Mazur is a documentary photographer who practices classical approach on the verge of finding new forms of using visual language in photography based art. Graduating from the Journalism Department of Moldavian State University in Chisinau he began to work with different print outlets in his country as a photo reporter. Desire to dedicate more time to investigate subjects and topics led him to start to work on independent projects and. After attending the “Human Rights and Photography Magnum Foundation Scholarship” in 2013 he focuses mostly on independent storytelling, based on observation of his own and nearby countries’ realities in their transition time.
Rural Carnival – ongoing project
Maybe from the beginning of its existence carnival practices were giving people not only feelings of freedom from ranks and social structures but also intense feeling of being immanent and unite. For some reason process of becoming is very important even now for significant amount of people in rural areas where traditions is still being kept though generations. Winter Carnival project is a glimpse to the world of carnival in rural areas in Europe and its organic evolvement where it is not preserved artificially as a moment of ethnic authenticity or touristic advantage, usually both are paired together. Series of masked portraits is part of the project which portrays various supernatural characters of carnival manifestations called differently from place to place. Whether it is “Tigani”, “Jidani” or “Iuflele” this characters main role is to deconstruct the concept of permissible and often display grotesqueness. (from editor)
