Toma Hurduc’s ongoing project “Two Suns” paints a picture of people becoming so lost in the chaos of their environment that the apocalypse is creeping in unnoticed. His portrayal of the urban landscape highlights how individuals are fed a constant stream of images and distorted realities, making the end seem inevitable even in the absence of clear signs.
The project focuses on socio-economic issues in the Balkan countries, capturing the concept of “crowded solitude” amidst chaotic urban life, all the while infusing an underlying sense of apocalypse.
He began photographing for this project in 2023, documenting Albania, Romania, Greece and the Republic of Moldova, depicting this locally-universal life experience, as imagined moments before something disastrous happens.
Toma Hurduc
Toma Hurduc is a documentary photographer, currently working in Bucharest. His attention was first focused on representing local underground communities and movements, which he strongly feels related to. Nowadays, his narratives are often built on top of the personal experience and relationship with the subject matter, therefore the factual truth is often mixed with the meta, imaginative truth, aiming to question the human perception of reality, dread, anxiety, ephemerality and the construction of memory.
Having an academic background in Cinematography, Toma is highly interested in the way light forms images, choosing to work regularly on 35mm black and white film, as a way to render the surreal he sees in ordinary life.
Toma’s work has been exhibited both collectively and solo in Romania and abroad and he has been part of multiple mentorship programs, most recent being with Annie Leibovitz and IKEA.
