Alex Beldea

Alex Beldea is a documentary photographer based in Huddersfield, UK. He was educated at the University of Huddersfield where he obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. His work focuses on a multivocal documentary practice, representing a collaboration between photographer and participants. With emphasis on the relationship between subject, photographer and viewer, Alex tries to build trust with his subjects and empower them while offering the viewers the chance to experience a well-researched and comprehensive outcome of his photographic work.

Asma

Students, engineers, bird keepers, families, children andjournalists. They all fled war or social instability and found shelter in Europe. This idealistic place, as they were imagining it, is supposed to be their new home, a home that comes with both comfort and struggle. Many of them are still waiting for their asylum approval, while learning new languages, adapting themselves and embracing a different way of life. This fresh start in Europe is their hope for a comeback to being treated with the decency demanded for a normal life. ‘Asma’ project brings together a series of ‘networked’ images that still exist thanks to internet and social media, taken by refugees on phones or cameras that they still possess or that were left back home or drowned in the sea. In addition, the portraits seek to imply the individuality and importance of every human being facing this situation, stepping away from stereotypical representations of ‘groups of X migrants’.