Framing a Romanian Landscape (2024)
a book by photographer and filmmaker Mircea Sorin Albuțiu,
edited and designed by Andrei Becheru, Nominated at Local Design Awards 2025.

Imagine a train transformed into a camera, its window a single, ever-present lens framing a continuous flow of life. The photo book is a document of a nation, and an exploration of a country seen anew.

In 2021, Albuțiu, known for capturing the unseen in life’s backstage, embarked on a 8 month journey, traveling 11,000 kilometers across Romania while riding 62 trains, documenting the hidden stories unfolding behind the scenes of the country. Using just one camera and lens, and a preference for the tones of the Kodak Ektar film, he sought to capture the interplay of light, people, communities, architecture, landscape, territories and environments and the ever-changing landscape framed by the train window.

Text: Adnana Cruceanu

As Bogdan Ghiu ponders in the book’s foreword essay, “[…] what do we see and,
perhaps above all, what is visible?

What does the photographer, “the man with the
camera” see – and, now, the man with the train: the camera-train -, and what else
is visible and maybe even in spite of it?”

This unique vantage point shapes a fresh
perspective on Romania.

Framing A Romanian Landscape
by Mircea Sorin Albutiu

Essay by Bogdan Ghiu

Editor / Designer: Andrei Becheru

Dimensions
16,6 cm x 24,5 cm
244 pages
Soft cover

ISBN 978-973-0-39694-2

Published in June 2024