Florin ion firimita biography sample

Florin Ion Firimita is a visual artist, educator, and writer. He took his first photograph at the age of three using a Soviet-made Zenith camera. His interest in image making could be traced back to his father’s modest amateur photo lab in Bucharest, Romania, where he was entrusted with mixing chemicals, developing film, and printing black-and-white images at the age of six.

After his parents’ death, he continued to study painting and drawing and kept taking photographs while holding jobs such as welder, grave digger, janitor, window decorator, and security guard.

After relocating to the United States in 1990, Florin’s photography, mixed media work, and writing have been featured in galleries and art magazines in Argentina, France, England, and the U.S.

The Art of Leaving, a film about his art, was released in 2003. Based on almost 3,000 pages of journal entries, the film took three years to make and was the official selection of seven international film festivals such as