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I Deal With Social Anxiety Creating Surreal Self-Portraits

My name is Monica Lazăr, I live in Bucharest, Romania, and I discovered my passion for photography four years ago. From the beginning, photography was like the air so much-needed in those moments I felt like drowning. My social anxiety and the permanent lack of confidence made me an isolated person. I love spending time with other people, but this seems terribly hard for me, so I found another way to speak to them. Self-portraiture helped me to show others what is happening in my mind. More than this, the images that I create brought into my life my soul-mate. Now, we are a team. He helps me to take my shots, I then create the story in Photoshop. Every image is an emotion I experienced, a wish, or a fear I’m dealing with. Self-portraits became that other dimension I can live in, and I’m grateful for this.

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My name is Monica Lazăr, I’m currently based in Bucharest, Romania, and I’m a self-taught portrait photographer and retoucher.

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My name is Monica Lazăr, I’m currently based in Bucharest, Romania, and I’m a self-taught portrait photographer and retoucher.

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Amber Joson 6 years ago

I also suffer from social anxiety, but I'm not this pretty! Haha, she's so gorgeous, brilliant images and soooo creative. <3

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Linda Kristiansen 6 years ago

I love your work! It is so beautiful and evocative, and your colors are amazing!

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Hani RM 6 years ago

Wonderful

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Alin Ivana 6 years ago

Incredible work Monica, following you on FB but never understood that they were self portraits... Incredible... You make an incredible artistic team, and hope to meet you two one day in Bucharest as I'm originally from Buzau

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