2010–2017

Bucharest

At its core, "Bucharest" is a project rooted in Ghercă’s experience of growing up in the 1990s. Although the photographs were taken in the 2010s, they evoke the atmosphere of Bucharest during the post-communist decade, a period marked by persistent poverty, fragile aspirations, and a particular sense of melancholy. The project focuses on the surroundings of the artist’s childhood neighborhood, a working-class area in the eastern part of the city. 120 color and b&w pictures, 35mm and 6x7cm medium format negative