Laura Dragomir
Romania
Biography
Analog street photographer based in Bucharest. Author of “Brăila Blue”, a hand crafted photo book documenting an estranged hometown. Part of Diafan, a duo exploring photography and other analog techniques.
Project
Temporary Residence is the documentation of wandering through a city that never quite becomes home.
Bucharest appears strange, fragile, and unpredictable to a woman from Brăila who, after 19 years, still feels she is merely passing through.
Colour photography, 35 mm.
Statement
Laura Dragomir works primarily with analogue photography, using this medium as a way to preserve places, memories, and atmospheres that risk dissolving into the past. Her project Brăila Blue is a personal attempt to capture on film fragments of her hometown—streets, gestures, and familiar spaces that are constantly changing.
Together with Adrian Roșu, she forms the collective Diafan, dedicated to analogue photography and traditional techniques. Their publications, handmade and bound in small editions, extend the photographic gesture into the tactile space of the book.
For Laura, the act of photographing is both archival and intimate: an effort to hold on to a city that is disappearing, while transforming memory into something tangible, resonant, and subtly poetic.
