Elena Raceala

Elena Raceala lives in Constanta, a city located in Romania, on the Black Sea shore and she considers herself a world citizen.

She describes her work as Fine Art with surreal, grunge, or poetry valency.

For her photography is emotion. She can't say exactly how and when the click happened, but on one of her trips to Italy in 2013, on a rainy morning, she took the first photo she's very attached to. From that moment on, a part of her lives through photography. The transition from travel and street photography to Fine Art was made out of the desire to express her vision, her message. She wants to convey through her images the emotion of discovering the perspective of a moment, of a story without words. Life inspires her, people with joys or difficult moments, sometimes her compositions resemble the human condition in which light and darkness live together. She likes to look for new places that will surprise her, but she likes the human presence, the usual moments, from everyday life, moments that she then expose in a black and white vision. Every moment is unique, she stops at what her heart tells her that she can portray them in a visual story. What she wants is for the emotion she felt when she took the photo to reach the one who sees it. The story does not stop here, she wants to touch the conceptual side as well as other photographic projects in the future.