2nd place
silver star award
Popa Gheorghe
romania 
Photo © Popa Gheorghe
title
Poisoned Beauty
I started to practice photography in the most seriously way about 6 years ago after a photo tour in Norway and since then I started to travel a lot in several locations (Iceland, Faroe Islands, Morocco, Argentina, Chile, USA, Russia, Turkey, Italy, France, Northern Ireland etc) but the greatest satisfactionand joy were provided by the lake Cuejdel in Romania, which I captured the most and my work has been rewarded by several awards to national and international contests.
In the present I constantly collaborate with the National Geographic magazine (Romania) but I did collaborate with the National Geographic magazine from Spain and the Fine Art National Geographic Galleries from USA.
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entry description
'Poisoned Beauty' tells the sad story of Geamana village from Apuseni Mountains, which turned into a tailings pond for the waste from processing copper and gold. Poisoned Beauty is an artistic protest that draws attention to the ecological disaster through a series of abstract aerial photographs. The incredibly beautiful shapes are the result of the discharge of chemical substances in the tailings pond combined with various natural factors such as snow, rain, wind, et cetera.about the photographer
My name is Gheorghe Popa and my main profession is pharmacist but I've always been attracted by photography. I can say I like any kind of photography. In the last years I've been focusing on the landscape photography, mostly nature and my favourite kind of photography is the aerial.I started to practice photography in the most seriously way about 6 years ago after a photo tour in Norway and since then I started to travel a lot in several locations (Iceland, Faroe Islands, Morocco, Argentina, Chile, USA, Russia, Turkey, Italy, France, Northern Ireland etc) but the greatest satisfactionand joy were provided by the lake Cuejdel in Romania, which I captured the most and my work has been rewarded by several awards to national and international contests.
In the present I constantly collaborate with the National Geographic magazine (Romania) but I did collaborate with the National Geographic magazine from Spain and the Fine Art National Geographic Galleries from USA.
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