Album As I Found It 2015-2025

[fig. M] brings Romanian photography’s defining figures into view through a series of photobooks, shaping a collective portrait of contemporary voices.

Alex Galmeanuis one of the most prominent Romanian photographers working today, widely known for his series,People I KnowandThe Anastasia Project. A graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, his photographs have appeared inThe New York Times,Harper’s Bazaar,Elle, and many other publications. He is the founder of the Museum of Photography, a platform for researching, collecting, and recontextualizing archival photography.

As I Found Itis a series of photographs that run along a “one-way street”: with no set beginning, no planned ending, no single theme to organize their view. It’s documentary photography in an eclectic key — a way of holding on to the everyday spectacle unfolding nearby, whenever the photographer is present enough to notice it.

The logic of the studio — poses, agreement, perfect light — falls away in favour of first and last sights: weather, glare, shadow, chance, the rhythm of pedestrians, scenes that assemble themselves without permission. Its images are rather future-oriented, present yet already-archival: proof that this was here, once, like this, exactly.

Alex Galmeanu(b. 1978, Bucharest) is a Romanian photographer, visual artist, and director of photography. Photographer since 1992, professional since 1998. He is a graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

His work spans editorial, fashion, advertising, and experimental photography, with an emphasis especially on portraits and visual storytelling. He is widely known forPeople I Know, an ongoing internationally-exhibited (Paris, Toulouse) series portraying prominent Romanian figures, as well as forThe Anastasia Project. He has shown his work in Romania and abroad, including in Poland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Hungary, and the United States. He also founded and developed the Museum of Photography, a platform dedicated to researching, collecting, and presenting archival photography, with a particular interest in the history of images and how they’re read in cultural context.

His photographs have appeared in publications such asThe New York Times,Harper’s Bazaar,Elle,Marie Claire,Esquire,GQ, andMen’s Health. He has worked with brands and companies including Coca-Cola, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, McDonald’s, Philips, the BBC, and Paramount, producing advertising campaigns for both local and international markets.

In film, he served as cinematographer on the documentarySpioni de ocazie(Accidental Spies), which won the UCIN award for Documentary Film and the Gopo Award for Best Documentary. He also created main promotional visuals and campaign artwork for film and TV productions, including projects linked to international platforms and networks such as Netflix, Sky, and Canal+.