Gabi Dobre X a camera

Trained as a nuclear physicist, Gabi Dobre still just couldn’t contain his natural curiosity.   So he applied it to journalism, instead.   Funny enough, you can see it in Gabi’s work, when he discretely, methodically, persistently, and with great precision breaks a subject down, to only reconstruct it for his readers, just like a scientist would with a bloody atom!

As of lately, he is busy-busy on a quest doing “quality journalism” at Decat o Revista, and our own Razvan is particularly fond of his Greece situation coverage in DOR#7, when Gabi was dispatched “in the field” for a week, to live and breathe the reality of it all.

So here you go, Gabi’s 20 snaps with a camera, and a comment to go along:

Most days I experience the city on a very narrow axis: from home to the office and back, with the occasional detour for a beer with some friends at the end of the day.

So this is my city: from the working-class neighbourhood view outside my apartment; to the always crowded escalator at the Romana metro station, where I sometimes get bursts of hope like the time a mother told her little daughter to “keep to the right”; to one of the streets I like most in Bucharest – a patch of quietness two minutes long; to the view from our office where, on sunny days, the horizon can trick you into thinking that behind the blocks of flats could be the seaside; to the small, sad, little park near the city center where I always see the silent, bearded guy that sleeps in a phone booth; to the beer I was telling you about earlier.

“It’s the road that matters, not the destination”, the postcard wisdom says. Having the camera and only 20 pictures, made me realise it’s a road I like. Especially with some beer and friends along the way.

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