I wish to expand my PhD work and expertise into a festival (the Chester Photo Festival) where people from all over the world and at all levels of experience use photography as a creative practice to share their feelings, stories, and folklore to create better relationships between people through democratic photography ways.
Following the methods and working models from my PhD, ‘Re-Imagining Romanian Culture from Afar through Still Life Photographic Images of Wolf Myths ‘ (2023), people, like myself, who have experienced it, could potentially gain the confidence to have their voices heard through their own culture and myths, and photography interests.
I’m a British-Romanian artist based in Chester since 2010, working with photography. I hold a PhD in Photography creative practice as research, completed in April 2023 under the supervision of Professor Erik Knudsen and Dr John Mills at the University of Central Lancashire. Thesis title: Re-imagining Romanian culture from afar through still life photographic images of wolf myths. I received a Master of Arts in Photography from the Manchester School of Art in 2015 with Distinction and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Photography from Kingston University London with a 1st Class in 2014. Since 2010, I have been studying, exhibiting, publishing, and working on various projects and commissions in London, Chester, Manchester, and Liverpool, as well as internationally, including France, Japan, Croatia, and Romania.
Alexandru Modoi 