Maramureş, a region in the north of Romania, is often described as a living museum, even within its own country. Photographer Martin Kulinna visited the Carpathian region with his camera to investigate the veracity of this description.
This distant corner of Europe provided him with touching and highly atmospheric black and white photos, which reveal much more than spruced up villages and mountain farmers in their picturesque Sunday best. He succeeds in capturing with great perception the special charm of this region and its people – Kulinna’s Maramureş photos convey the spirit that has matured over centuries in one of the last pristine areas in Europe.

Biography
1962 born in Waren / Müritz
since 1984 work as photographer, only analog b & w photographs

Awards: Fotopreis der Neubrandenburger Zeitung, Fotopreis MV-Foto e. V.

Travels: among others to Finnland, Norway, Ukraine, China, Vietnam, Hungary, Romania,  Poland, Malta, Albania, Spain and Bulgaria

2007 founder of the foundation "PHOTOGRAPHIE schwarz/weiß"