With Andrei Pandele Being in Bucharest on holiday this August, I felt it was the right time to do something I had wanted to do for a long time. Knowing that Mr Andrei Pandele lives in Bucharest, I got in touch with him and we arranged for me to visit. I wanted to sit down with him, listen to his stories and, above all, talk about his photographs and the Bucharest he has documented over so many years. For those who may not know his work, Andrei Pandele was born on 27 August 1945 in Bucharest....

Just a few days ago in Bucharest, I was having a conversation with a few photographers about something I do quite often: removing photographs from my portfolio. Photographs that I once liked, photographs that maybe worked well at the time, but that today simply don’t stay with me anymore. I look at them and I don’t feel the same connection. They no longer represent where I am as a photographer. And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough. We always talk about making new...

As many of you already know, I’m almost always on the road across Europe, and the first months of this year found me exactly like that — moving, going from one place to another, with very little time to stay still. January, February, and March went by fast. Faster than I would have liked. I had my camera with me everywhere, trying not to miss the simple things — the right light, a gesture, a glance that appears and disappears in a split second. There was nothing spectacular in the classic...