Alex Beldea Photography

26/05/2023

14/12/2022

'Tis (almost) the season! ✨ Who's dreaming of a festive break in Scotland? 🙋‍♀️🎄

📍 Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie, Highlands
📷 Instagram.com/scott_rennie_photo

08/04/2020

Today I was supposed to travel to Tunis in order to continue my research and to meet the group of refugees who have been stranded over there since 2011. The last person to speak to on my last trip was Kaki, from Sudan.

Under the harsh Tunisian sunlight, on the rooftop of the building they live in, he told me that in Sudan he was not allowed to use his Nubian name and he had to be officially called Mohamed. Not having and Arabic name in Sudan can lead to being banned from attending school or from finding a job.

The oppression that refugees had to face in their home countries can have many forms and can derive from state violence, racism, war, poverty, into day to day struggles such as not being able to use their own name.

Kaki is now still in La Marsa, Tunis, together with 30 other refugees who have been spatially stranded and temporally suspended since 2011, when they arrived from Libya. Since then the Tunisian government has been systematically refusing to initiate a proper asylum system, whilst the UNHCR stopped trying to internationally relocate these refugees in 2013. Kaki still hopes that their situation is an opportunity for Tunisia and for the UNHCR to work on new laws for protecting and supporting refugees.

02/08/2018

Thrilled to see my work about refugees published in the September issue of Practical Photography magazine. Many thanks to Practical Photography for featuring a material about refugees in their magazine and to University Of Huddersfield for their support throughout the past 6 years

05/03/2018

360° video experiment at the Food&Culture Festival at the University of Huddersfield

A celebration of international food and culture at the University of Huddersfield, part of the International Week - 360° Video

28/02/2018

Acrobat at Spring Festival celebrations. Huddersfield, UK, 2018

17/09/2017

Fun with flags. Making flags is this man's daily job - Medina, Tunis 🇹🇳

16/12/2016

The story of A. A., who used to live near Aleppo, Syria

'I was supposed to go take my exams in Aleppo. Because of the war and the bad situation of this city there was no chance to go there. I stayed home and I kept studying hoping that I could take the exams the following year; unfortunately the situation was worse. My parents realized that Syria would not get back to normal soon, therefore they decided to send me away' (from the Valid for Travel project)

http://www.alexbeldea.com/story2.html

30/11/2016

'Second Home' series is up on the website and on display at the Manchester Art Gallery alongside the Strange and Familiar exhibition

http://www.alexbeldea.com/secondhome.html

'Inspired by Strange and Familiar curated by Martin Parr, the series of specially commissioned photographs Second Home by Romanian photographer Alex Beldea capture Manchester as it is percieved by a selection of the gallery's learners and volunteers. Each participant chose a place in our city where…

07/11/2016

Belfast lanes

04/11/2016

Delighted to have my work exhibited in the Manchester Art Gallery, alongside huge names like Paul Strand, Henri Cartier Bresson and Rineke Dijkstra. The 'Second Home' project, presenting people of contemporary Manchester, will be on display starting on 25 November, part of the Strange and Familiar exhibition curated by Martin Parr.

http://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/exhibition/strange-and-familiar/

Curated by Martin Parr & celebrating the work of photographers, including Cartier Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Rineke Dijkstra, Bruce Gilden & Evelyn Hofer.

12/10/2016

Delighted to be awarded 2 Honourable Mentions by the International Photo Awards for the 'Asma' project: Deeper Perspective & Photo Essay and Feature Story

http://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-122364-16

Entry Title: "Asma" Name: Alex Beldea, United Kingdom Category and Expertise: Photo Essay and Feature Story|Deeper Perspective, StudentEntry Description: According to the UN, 50% of the Syrian refugees are children. Together with their families, they fled war or social instability and found shelter…