Fotograf Marius Barbulescu

—Sunteți fotogenic?

—​Very rarely! :)

—Cum ați ajuns în industria fotografiei?

—​I was 20 and had a photography class at the University! The moment I shot the first roll of film with a SLR, I was hooked for life! I feel very old at 32 saying I've started photography shooting film.

—Care sunt cele mai importante componente ale unei fotografii bune, după părerea dvs?

—​To send a message, a feeling or to make you remember things. We’re losing so many good things along the way in our journey through life like innocence, compassion, humanity, sincerity… just to name a few. Kids have them naturally, we’re born rich and most of the people die poor of these.

—Vă place să călătoriți?

—​Yes! I can be on the road 365 days a year, but only if I’m with my family. Home is wherever I’m with them.

—Ce vă place cel mai mult la profesia dvs?

—​
The freedom to organize my life just as I want, the people I meet, the friends I make, the places I visit… I have at least 1000 reasons. Shooting weddings is for me my chance to use everything I experienced personally to create something new every week. Photography is not objective and it's a good thing because it lets us choose how we tell the stories. It's a refuge for me and an act that leaves me with no masks (or very few of them). I'm trying to shoot in a very sincere way.

—Ce vă place cel mai puțin la profesia dvs?

—​Deadlines! Sometimes it gets frustrating, but I’m getting better and better with them.

—Care va fi viitorul fotografiei?

—​I have no idea, but I’d love to live it.

—Ce este special la genul de fotografie în care sunteți specializat?

—​For me it’s the freedom it gives me… I have a license to shoot everyone! And weddings are not just super fun, but also extremely diverse. I love that!

—Cum răspundeți criticilor?

—​Pretty well because I'm already my own fiercest critique. Nobody can match this! :)

—Există tendințe în fotografia?

—Of course. But good photography is forever.

—Care ar trebui să fie criteriile după care un client să aleagă un fotograf?

—​I'd check to see if the work of the photographer I like is consistent, if he blogs every wedding he's shooting and, after a short talk over skype or face to face, if we get along fine.

—Ce lucruri sunt complet nepermise când fotografiați?

—​Touching people and being in the center of attention.

—Ce detalii de obicei neobservate de alții pot fi observate de un fotograf?

—​“Common” people can become excellent photographers with experience. It’s just that good wedding photographers are trained to see more the “in between” moments, small gestures that make all the difference, little stories within bigger ones.

—Ce influențează valoarea fotografiei? Care sunt elementele ei?

—Composition + moment + light. For a great photo you can't exclude any of these.

—Ce persoană poate fi simbolul secolului XXI după părerea dvs?

—​Anyone that can bring peace and make the world a better place for everybody, not just for a few of us. Jesus Christ maybe if He decides to pay us a visit again.

—Pe cine doriți să fotografiați?

—I let my destiny to choose that for me.

—Aveți tabuuri profesionale?

—I am never allowing myself to be bored or tired while shooting a wedding... ok, maybe a little bored from time to time, but I'm always trying to make things more interesting.

—Cu cine ați vrea să faceți fotografii?

—​So many people and they know who they are… but right now Sergio and Kelly from www.kellyandsergio.com intrigue me a lot. Their work is so original and authentic.

—Ce vă îngrijorează și de ce?

—​I worry every time that I’m faking photography and that I suck!

—Care este cel mai impresionant moment din viața dvs?

—​The moment my son was born.

—Dacă ați fi fost un personaj de desen animat, de carte sau de film, cine v-ar fi plăcut să fiți?

—​Sam Gamgee from Lord of the Rings! If more people would be like him, we’d live in a happier place!

—Cine vă inspiră în viață și de ce?

—​Anyone who doesn’t put his own self in front of everybody else. We live in a selfish world and I’m trying to cure myself from that too.

—Cum definiți succesul? Cum îl măsurați?

—​Success is when you manage to bring balance in you and around you.

—V-ar plăcea să fiți mai degrabă plăcut sau respectat?

—​I don’t fight for any of these, so I can’t answer. If I get to be liked or respected it's because I did something good. I only fight to do good things.

—Cum vă pregătiți pentru a face fotografii mai bune?

—Every year I buy some photography books (not wedding photography, mostly photojournalism). I look at a lot of pictures (mywed is also a constant source of inspiration) and try to analyze the things I like in a picture. I shoot a lot of IPhone pictures and I try to stay alert to any interesting situations that might occur around me. A photographer should never "sleep", training and educating for this si a life long mission.

—Activitatea cărei persoane v-a influențat cel mai mult în calitate de fotograf?

—So many, but mostly Saul Laiter, Sam Abell and James Nachtway. In wedding photography it was Jeff Ascough at first and then Ben and Erin Chrisman that started all for me! Their work made me want to become a better wedding photographer for all the good reasons.

—Ce vă motivează să continuați să faceți fotografii?

—​The life I have now is a good one, I strive to keep it like this.

—Părinții dvs. ar fi trebuit să mai mai stricți sau mai puțin stricți?

—I have the best parents in the world, I wouldn't change anything.

—Ce credeți despre viața pe alte planete?

—Yes.

—Cine sunt eroii dvs?

—The people who genuinely love to help the ones in need.

—Pentru cine nu aveți respect?

—Selfishness.

—Ce faceți în timpul liber?

—​Family time, traveling, reading, movies, playing video games with my son.

—Când sunteți complet mulțumit de munca dvs?

—​I’m far from being satisfied!

—Credeți în rolurile tradiționale ale femeii și bărbatului?

—​No.

—Vă faceți prieteni ușor?

—​Friendship is a ship that take a long time to build, so, no, I don’t make friends easily! But I'm an easygoing person, I get along fine with almost everyone.

—Unde v-ar plăcea să trăiți?

—​Near a forest and a lake, a few kilometers away from civilization, but with Internet and electricity. :)

—Există viață după căsătorie?

—​Having or adopting a kid is life, so, yes, there is a lot of life after marriage.

—Vă plac câinii sau pisicile?

—​Both!

—Pe cine sau ce urâți?

—​I’m trying hard not to hate anyone! So nobody, but I’m scared of extremists (any type of extremists)!

—Cel mai bun lucru în viață este:

—​Children

—Cel mai neplăcut lucru în viață este:

—​Adults

—Este ceva în jur ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați?

—​Preconceptions, I’d love to see the people more open minded (me included).

—Ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați la dvs?

—​The same things I’d like to change in other people too.

—Ne puteți da câteva sugestii pentru fotografii începători?

—​You photography can only be as good as you are… so instead of learning tons of new tricks, invest in yourself, but not in a selfish way.

—Dacă extratereștrii ar veni pe Pământ și ați fi prima persoana care s-ar întâlni cu ei, ce le-ați spune?

—​Go back, we’re not ready!

—Dacă ați fi solicitat să faceți un film, ce gen ar fi?

—​Sci Fi

—Mâine mă voi duce să fac...

—​A 10km run!