Experimental nominee

For "Disguise" project inspired by René Magritte's artwork, I chose to focus on the idea of "identity" using monochrome inversions.

Identity is easy to define when we pretend that labels are satisfactory, when we ignore its ineffability, when we forcefully try to capture in words what cannot be captured in words.

Like identity, the rose seems to be endlessly layered.

What initially appears as a whole is actually made up of so many petals that you can't get to the bottom even with the most careful look.

Somewhere in the vortex of the rose lies the essence of each man's identity.

Elena Raceala is a semi-professional Romanian photographer and currently works as nurse at the County and Emergency Clinical Hospital Constanta.
She discovered her passion for photography in 2013 during a trip to Naples and since that moment, part of her, lives through photography. She loves to travel and document every place she passes through.
Along the way, Elena Raceala has sought her own style, trying to express her emotions and artistic vision through works with surrealist or poetic inclinations.
Part of her wants to express herself, to conquer more of what is still in the power of nothingness, and the other part to collect what is already represented.
Representative for her are black and white works in which photographs of the street or everyday life are transformed, creatively using light and shadows, spaces, and lines, into creations with an own surrealist vision.
She has won awards and mentions in some of the best-known international photography competitions. Over the years she has had numerous group exhibitions, and two solo exhibitions, in Constanta and Bucharest, and her photographs have been selected in various photo albums on prestigious photography websites. Recently, she has had two editorial appearances in "Photography in Visual Culture" and