Drum Bun is a photographic project devoted to the Romanian landscape as seen from the perspective of the road – from inside a moving car.

The photographs were taken during the early years of my stay in Romania, primarily in 2010 and 2011. Captured during numerous journeys, the images were made spontaneously, without the possibility of choosing the frame – constrained by speed, direction of travel, and the car window.

The title, Drum Bun – a common Romanian farewell meaning “safe journey” – becomes a symbol of hospitality embedded in motion, and at the same time, a metaphor for selective access: the road welcomes, but only in the direction it dictates. Space opens conditionally – along the infrastructure that defines not only mobility but also visibility.

The Romania depicted in these photographs is not a representation of the whole, but a fragmentary, peripheral, and ephemeral space – appearing and vanishing, never fully attainable. Drum Bun is not a story of travel, but of the conditions of seeing: how the architecture of mobility shapes what can be perceived, and what inevitably remains unseen. This is not an image of whole Romania and due to restrains mentioned above, can't be treated as such.

The decision to publish this project was inspired by the reflections of well known Polish philosopher and mountaineer Marek Głogoczowski, a distant relative of mine – we share a great-great-grandfather – whom I had the good fortune to meet shortly before his death in November 2023. His analysis from his book The Ethos of Mindlessness resonates deeply with my project, revealing how road infrastructure shapes spatial perception and conditions our experience of the world.

In the context of Drum bun, we see how the road – seemingly open and accessible – may in fact function as a “space of exclusion.” It becomes a selective barrier that determines what and how we see, while keeping other realities out of reach.