"Urban Illusion" Project
"Stories from Munich" collection

As facial features melt away in the frantic movement of the camera, the outlines remain. The rather unclear, blurry, but yet eternal borders. Although we wouldn't be able to tell exactly where human ends and external world begin, we approximate the limit of that which is under our immediate control, to the best of our abilities. 
Each moment, by means of a quiet background process, we attempt to make sense of the world, and despite our foggy vision, we reach outside, as far as possible.
This collection of the ongoing experimental photography project "Urban Illusion" includes images of the urban world of Munich made using the Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) technique.

"Urban Illusion" Project / "Stories from Munich" collection

My collection "The Street", includes a series of photographs through which I want to preserve, in my style, the strong spirit of the street and the temporary character of the moment.

The Street

Sometimes how we feel on a rainy day depends on our mood. For me a rainy day opens up a whole new world... raindrops, rhythm, hurried footsteps, wind-scared umbrellas and rustling souls that scream or smile. From all these I caught pieces and gathered them in the collection "Stories from Annecy".
Annecy, August 2022. Photography through Intentional Camera Movement technique.

Stories from Annecy

"Parisien" collection is a series of photographs evoking moments in the reality of Paris in 2024.

"Parisien"

Disguise

Photography - Open Edition

The first snow

The “Tomorrow is another day” collection is a selection of creations meant to convey hope, it is a reason to analyze emotions, a journey of self-discovery, a way to accept the regrets and burdens of the past to create a better future. . It's a glimmer of light in a density of fog, with ups and downs, it's life itself.

“Tomorrow is another day”

Confessions of a woman

Imaginative nature

Color vision

Hidden

"Emotional" = feelings that are slightly aroused and displayed openly.
 The "Emotional" series is created by states and feelings, illusions and disintegrations, sadness, balance, intentions, hope.

Emotional

A magical roundtrip through the Swiss Alps on the UNESCO Bernina Red Train from Tirano, Italy, to the world-famous St. Moritz, Switzerland.
I tried to recreate in black and white the whole atmosphere of the places I passed.

Radiography of a journey. Bernina Express from Tirano to St. Moritz

Essence

My thoughts in a February evening on the Como Lake

February evening on the Como Lake

The basis of this abstract collection are my photos taken in July 2021 in the Ice Cave of the Mer de Glace in Chamonix, French Alps, a place where all around is a sea of ice that you can compare with the frozen waves instantly in the middle of a violent storm. I was impressed and inspired by that disturbing and perhaps immortal blue if humanity could mitigate climate change.

Immortal blue

At the top of the mountains, far from the urban area, you realize the greatness of nature, and you can't help but wonder where humanity is heading and what it will do. 
Strange weather, I was inspired by the fog that came over mountains and over us, the few there. It was a mysterious and dramatic fog that left and came continuously and intertwined us with nature.
Environmental hazards due to climate change were a harsh reality in the context of those days in July 2021, and not only, when apocalyptic waters caused landslides as strange floods devastated Europe. 
Humanity is only a small part of nature, but it has played a crucial role in its evolution.
The pictures were taken in Chamonix area, the French Alps.

Where are we going

"Culture does not isolate." Procida Island  will be the Capital of Italian Culture 2022. Simplicity, abstract, colors in Procida Island, November 2021.

"Culture does not isolate."

Impressions from the French Alps (2021)

"Begins again the smell of rain" or rainy weather in the Alps, (Portes du Soleil region) is a project with a length of multiple years, a project that made through connection with nature and its spirit full of mood, inspiration, and mystery.

Begins again the smell of rain

It's not just about the street, the compositions resemble the human condition in which light and darkness live together. It's about life itself.

Elena Raceala