Sebastian Marcovici (RO)

Sebastian Marcovici (RO)

Booker, Focus Festival

Photo of Sebastian Marcovici with the former president of Romania laughing with word of mouth made the rounds of the national and international media. Nor at least it’s not one of his best shots ever. vision and the transposition of the images made by the artist photographer Sebastian Marcovici is a unique photojournalist Sebastian Marcovici, recognized at the level national through numerous awards such as the title of “Photographer of the Year in Romania” awarded two consecutive years to the artist by the AAFR (Association of Photographers from Romania) in 2011 and 2021 and at the international level through the gold medal FIAP (Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique), eclipsed the artist.

The Focus Sibiu project, which belongs to him, is one of the longest-lasting, important and complete photo retrospectives from Romania, the exhibition being the place in which, every year, the artist meets the photojournalist together with his colleagues from within the Focus Photos Agency. The artist has been active in music for over 15 years, Sebastian being over time bassist and guitarist in bands such as Alternosfera and Domino. The Focus in the Festival was also born from musical considerations Park, whose director he has been since its foundation in 2013. Focus is the first alternative music festival in Sibiu and one of the most popular festivals of this kind national plan, festival nominated in 2022 in the Best category Small Festival by the European Festival Awards. So Sebastian found in recent years a balance between photographic art and music that can also be seen listen through all his projects.