photography

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video

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Untitled Syria

Sound of music

Daniel Djamo - Sound of music from djamo on Vimeo.

Menu - Daniel Djamo from djamo on Vimeo.

The fat lamb

The fat lamb - Daniel Djamo (english version) from djamo on Vimeo.

These videos are part of a larger project, named “Buni”, which is a journal of the last words. I started it in the middle of 2009. It’s decomposition, mental agony and self loss. This is not a documentation of death, but a mere projection of what really matters. The photos are trying to underline the immortality of the human experience with everything that surrounds him, their interior value, that is never forgotten or lost, becoming the legacy of those who are near to us, those who we love. “Buni” is not a two year study of degradation, but everyone’s story, even if it appears in rather different shapes, written or rewritten with more or less talent.
Buni raised me. Although we are not related, she was more than a mother to me. I started photographing her when I saw that he is poor in health. I felt I must do it. I couldn’t stay inert. In the summer of 2010 I felt that the photographic medium is poor, considering what I felt I would like to transmit to others. That is why I chose to continue what I felt I must do through video. It is obvious that a feeling cannot be transmitted in the sharpest, truly human and real form through the use of photography, film, or text. Nothing that is inside of us can be made VHS or DVD. “Buni” can only offer photocopied images of a story distorted by our own memories, becoming a reflection of ourselves in deformed mirror. It is a continuous project, putting together more than 180 hours of filmed material and more than 1600 photographs. This work is part of this larger project, alongside other videos made out of the filmed material that I have gathered.

about

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I started taking photos when I was just 8 years old with my mother’s Smena film camera and didn’t stop ever since – well, I changed a couple of cameras since then, but I didn’t stop shooting. I came in full contact with the Romanian art scene in 2009, when I started my Masters in Photo-Video, at the University of Fine Arts, in Bucharest, Romania (UNARTE). I left my job as reporter and editor for a Romanian sports newspaper in order to follow what I felt was right for me. I gave all my projects my full time and dedication, thus starting to rely only on my University allowance. I gave up film photography in favor of digital photography and I started filming a lot.

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Name: Daniel Nicolae Djamo
Born: May 4th 1987
Mail: dndjamo@yahoo.com
Phone: +40.721.51.75.31

Studies:

1) 2006-2009 Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Bucharest
2) 2010-2013 Bachelor of Arts, Photography and Video art department of the National Academy of Fine Arts from Bucharest
3) 2012- Bachelor of Arts at Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany - Erasmus scholarship

Masters:

2009-2011 Masters at the Photography and Video art department of the National Academy of Fine Arts from Bucharest

Awards:

1) 2011 ESSL Award Nominee for Romania of the Vienna Insurance Group
2) 2011 National Academy of Fine Arts Prize winner, Bucharest
3) 2011 StartPoint Prize finalist - represented UNARTE - Romania, Brno, Czech Republic
4) 2011 Walthamstow International Film Festival Experimental Award winner, 3rd movie of the Festival Award winner, London, England
5) 2011 Luksuz International Film Festival Most Innovative Film Award winner, Luksuz, Slovenia
6) 2011 Azyl Short Film Festival One Minute competition nominee, Bratislava, Slovakia
7) 2012 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 25. International Short Film Competition nominee, Germany
8) 2012 Videoformes Prix de la Création Vidéo 2012 nominee, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Residencies:

1) 2011 ICR Paris (Romanian Cultural Institute from Paris) residence de creation – August - September 2011 period
2) 2012 SIDEWAYS - Exploring pathscapes in Belgium, August 17th - September 17th, 2012

Festivals:

1) 2011 ELIA (European League of Institutes of Arts) NEU\NOW Live Festival in Tallin, selected to represent Romania for Visual Arts (Photography - "Deposit No. 38" and "Index") and Video\Film section ("Menu" and "The fat lamb"), November 17th – November 20th 2011
2) 2011 Cologne OFF VII – Cologne International Videoart Festival, May - September 2011
3) 2011 George Enescu Art Biennale, during the 2011 George Enescu Music Festival (September 1st – September 25th 2011), Bucharest - photography: "Buni", "Deposit No. 38", - video: "Menu"
4) 2011 IDEO\IDEIS - Youth Art Exhibition, during the VIth edition of IDEO\IDEIS Youth Theatre Festival, photography, August 2nd – August 10th, Alexandria
5) 2011 VIDEO FACADE participant\nominee, VideoFestival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
6) 2011 Luksuz Film Festival, Slovenia
7) 2011 Reworks Art Festival - Music and Contemporary Art, Pireus, Greece
8) 2011 Walthamstow International Film Festival, London, England
9) 2011 UAMO Art Festival, Munich, Germany
10) 2011 Simultan Videoart Festival, Timisoara
11) 2011 Cherry Kino - Leeds, International Film Festival, Leeds, England
12) 2012 Visionaria Film Festival, Siena, Italy
13) 2012 Videoformes - Video Art & Digital Cultures Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
14) 2012 Stuttgarter Filmwinter 25. International Film Festival, Germany
15) 2012 The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
16) 2012 Experiments in Cinema v7.9 Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Exhibitions:

1) “Nostalgia” – 19th century style photography - (group exhibition), June 24th- June 26th 2010, the Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bucharest
2) “Deposit No. 38” – photography – personal exhibition, opened August 3rd 2010, Paradis Garaj, Bucharest
3) “Cities Methodologies” – installation - (group exhibition), October 28th – November 5th 2010, UNAgaleria, Bucharest
4) “Body under surveillance – The body as a contemporary art project – theoretical challenges, artistic forms”- photography and video (“Buni” project, “Menu” video)- (group exhibition), March 9th – April 9th 2011, Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest
5) “ESSL AWARD Nominees’ Night” – photography - June 1st – June 26th 2011, Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest
6) “The “Other” body” – photography – some works that are part of the “Index” project - (group exhibition), May 4th – May 24th 2011, Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest
7) “Norway Grants Exhibition” – photography (group exhibition), May 24th – June 7th 2011, Photo Annex Gallery of MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Bucharest
8) “UNARTE selection” – “Menu ” video screening – during the “Night of the galleries” event, June 10th 2011, Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest
9) “Night of the cultural institutes” – “Menu” and “The fat lamb” video screening in the “Biblioteque jeunese” room of the French Cultural Institute from Bucharest, June 24th- June 25th, Bucharest
10) “Night of the cultural institutes” – “One year ago exhibition” – 19th century style photography - (group exhibition), June 24th- June 25th 2010, the Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bucharest
11) “StartPoint UNArte 2011” – June 30th – August 30th – Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest
12) “National Academy Prize Exhibition” – July 1st - July 5th 2011, UNAgaleria, Bucharest
13) “Contempora” - September 3rd - September 23rd - Sala Palatului Hall (during the 2011 George Enescu Music Festival), Bucharest
14) “StartPoint Prize 2011” – October 11th 2011 – December 14th 2011, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
15) “Contempora 2” - November 29th 2011 - January 14th 2012 - Sala Palatului Hall, Bucharest
16) "Index - StartPoint Prize 2011 selection" - January 18th - March 25th 2012, Gavu Cheb Gallery, Cheb, Czech Republic
17) “BODY WORLD – Traveling the distance between subject and object”- video (“Sound of music”, “Untitled Syria”)- (group exhibition), January 25th - March 1st 2012, Victoria Art Gallery – Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest
18) “Contempora 3” - February 12th - March 11th 2012 - Club A, Bucharest

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