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09-12 July 2026 INTERSECTIONS
A festival for everyone who loves the analog arts, from sight to sound and everything in between.
Join us under the burning hot July sky for four days of keeping it offline: exhibitions, workshops, concerts, talks, books, games, bikes, friends. Worth leaving the house for!
This year is about Intersections: the dialogue between our past and future selves, the space we find ourselves in-between, and the unexpected ways they meet. Read the festival statement
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EXHIBITIONDARIA RADU
Superscrieri
Bursa Poqe
Photographs made as part of the Superscrieri Poqe #4 Grant
The Superscrieri-Poqe Grant for photojournalism is offered in memory of photojournalist George Popescu (Poqe), providing financial and editorial support to an debuting photographer in order to produce and publish their first professional documentary story.
Daria Radu, the grantee of the fourth edition, was mentored by photographer Bogdan Dincă and by journalist Luiza Vasiliu. Her final piece will soon be published by Scena9.
The proposed theme for documentation in this edition: the realities of teenagers and young people in Romania.
“Don’t you want to share a cup?”
That is how the first on-the-record conversation I had with Sara and Alec began.
I met them two months ago, and they offered me my own small square of their intimacy, more than I ever expected. It took me three months to find a young queer couple ready to open up to a stranger.
Romania ranks 42nd out of 49 European countries in respect for the human rights of the queer community. In 2023, only 13% of Romanians surveyed knew a gay person, compared to a global average of 47%, with the percentage even lower for bisexual, trans, or non-binary people. In this context, their openness is an immense act of courage, one I wanted to honor with the greatest possible care.
I documented the first places they went together, the place where they celebrated one year of their relationship, their home, and I tried, as much as possible, to capture on film something of each of their inner worlds. Over the course of several months, I observed how they moved into two new apartments, how they went on holiday with family, and how they dealt with life together.
Aware of the limits of my own representation, I wanted them to be part of the project’s process as well, so I offered them a piece of my own intimacy, my grandfather’s camera, with which they photographed each other.
In the end, I was left with two complementary series, one I took and a much closer one, that they took, both approached with tenderness, in which a queer relationship is not invisible and has the right to occupy the space it deserves. What mattered most in my process as an observer was to give them enough room for their relationship to exist visually, without obstacles.