As I Found It 2015–2025

Alex Gâlmeanu is one of the most prominent Romanian photographers working today, widely known for his series, People I Know and The Anastasia Project . A graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, his photographs have appeared in The New York Times , Harper’s Bazaar , Elle , and many other publications. He is the founder of the Museum of Photography, a platform for researching, collecting, and recontextualizing archival photography.

As I Found It is a series of photographs that run along a “one-way street”: with no set beginning, no planned ending, no single theme to organize their view. It’s documentary photography in an eclectic key — a way of holding on to the everyday spectacle unfolding nearby, whenever the photographer is present enough to notice it. The logic of the studio — poses, agreement, perfect light — falls away in favour of first and last sights: weather, glare, shadow, chance, the rhythm of pedestrians, scenes that assemble themselves without permission.

Its images are rather future-oriented, present yet already-archival: proof that this was here, once, like this, exactly.