“If you give, forget… if you can, remember”
Of this precious romanian proverbwe will be able to detect the main qualities of this woman who was born near the shores of the danube delta in this country which suffers from both clichés but which still bears the marks of a history made up of pain, terror, corruption, wars to the point that we forget that it keeps many human, scientific and economic treasures .
It took me a while to accept that the accent was my story
Alexandra Dinca was already in her early thirties when she arrived in France and discovers both life far from her native country but also the language barrier that she will have to overcome, she who is of a discreet natural when she has already tried her hand at press photography in a difficult context.
Sport as valve and place of integration
handball player before coming to settle in Saint EtienneAlexandra is full of praise when she talks about this team that she joined but where again the common language could remain a problem until it was carried by a very eclectic collective in horizons and in age which reinforced the will to win in this Romanian with a still very pronounced accent.
When you have a camera, it allows you to hide behind
Sufficiently comfortable behind a lens (rather than in front of it), it’s on events in the lives of others such as weddings that she works regularly to exercise her talents as photographer who join those of the Saint-Etienne collective We Are Parallax where she has already distinguished herself through her series of shots on home births in Romania, an act punishable by law in that country.
Photographer and teacher
When she is not on a wedding where her discretion, her patience and her kindness as well as a quasi-journalistic approach are more than warmly recommended or on publications via her account instagramAlexandra teaches English in two Business School in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, but she recognizes that she does not want to live to work and imagines that she will stop one day to do good around her, to give without return.
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