Ina Bichescu

My nature painting with the camera consists of unmanipulated photographs. Some of the images were taken with ND or polarizing filters and very little editing.Some of the photographs can be purchased as NFTs on Opensea.io with a digital certificate. Some pictures have already been exhibited in the Museum of Photography in Braunschweig or in the Seippel Gallery in Cologne.

My career as an art photographer took a few detours. Growing up in an artist family in Romania, I first learned about painting and graphics as a child. With my father Constantin Bichescu, who is a painter, art teacher and critic, I was taught color theory, perspective, technique and the composition of pictures at home. My father's entire library of books on art and art history was my first reading experience. Since I also really loved classical music, I was always torn between whether I should study music or painting. Since I already had the "art academy" at home through my father and his library, I decided to study music, but continued to practice painting, take courses and continue my artistic education. I, as a mother working full-time as a musician in the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, no longer had enough time to paint as I wanted, I bought a small Canon compact camera in 2009 with which I started taking photographs. But I really missed the free development of creativity that I experienced in painting in photography. Out of this feeling, I started experimenting with the camera and discovered that the camera can do more than just represent reality and that I can even paint with it.

2021, 2022,2023,2024 exhibitions in the Photography Museum Braunschweig, Germany
2023,2024 exhibitions in the Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany