Entries by Pierre Pichot

Another direction

A few weeks ago I was attending a university graduation ceremony of one of the members of my family. I wasn’t really in a artistic mode to be honest, much more in another direction like  “take portraits with the telephoto as you came late and can’t get closer than 20 meters from the scene” mode. Not […]

Dutch angle

I called this photo “Dutch angle” as a reference to the famous camera tilt technique of “[setting the camera] at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not […]

Little girl

I shot the photo of this little girl doing her homework during a workshop organised during the Photo Romania Festival 2016, which takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. This workshop was dedicated to Street Photography with a twist: shooting “from the hip” instead of the classical approach, looking in your viewfinder. “From the hip” actually means shooting […]

U Cluj protest

Universitatea Cluj, or U Cluj as it’s commonly called, is the oldest football club of Cluj-Napoca, Romania as it was founded in 1919, almost a century ago. Even if it’s not the most successful team in the city (the other team, CFR Cluj, has won a few times the national championship and has also participated […]