Among all of us saying ‘Hello’ to you each time we meet on Friday morning, there’s that particular one that you might have noticed around grabbing his camera and taking shots all the time. Cătălin has known and enthusiastically joined the CreativeMornings team in Bucharest even before it was born.
Keen on words and copywriting, after highschool Cătălin went on to study Communication and Public Relations in Bucharest. By the end of his university years, advertising no longer seemed an ideal playground, but he had met the right likeminded people that pushed him in pursuing any other passion he wanted.
So Cătălin tried his luck in photography. He was already taking portraits of friends at meetings or parties, so he gathered all his work, bought an online template of a portfolio and he began looking for projects. Soon he started to take on more and more assignments and stories, ranging from shooting people at movie festivals and finding out their stories, to architecture and design photography. He’s still most attached to portraits and photojournalism, having also gathered some good experience in interior design. Six years later, he’s part of the DoR (Decât o Revistă) crew and he played a big part in the birth of CreativeMornings Bucharest. Back in 2013, he did the videos that the team needed in order to apply for the Bucharest chapter, and he has come to each month meeting ever since.
As busy as he is running around to take the best shots during the talks, he always enjoys listening to the speaker and says that all this moving helps him catch every detail, because he has to really pay attention to everything that’s happening. His favorite piece of any creative morning is the final shot, when it’s just him and the guest and he gets to know the person standing on stage. For Cătălin, a longtime behind the scenes craftsman, it’s interesting to see that, although CreativeMornings has brought together a pretty solid community, every speaker brings their own new audience along. It’s also similar to what Cătălin has learned so far from working in different areas, as a photographer: traditionally speaking, the saying goes that you should focus on one thing if you’re good at it, because this is how people will know about you and call you up for projects. But if you’re good at more than just one thing, go ahead and practice each of them.
