about

I don’t really know my nationality, which is probably not unusual for someone from an ex-USSR country. I was born in Moldova, but Ukrainian was spoken far more often in my family than Romanian. For some reason, during the Olympics, we always supported Russia more than any other country. I didn’t think much of it as a child, but as I grew older, those reasons started to matter. For me, photography is an (auto)anthropological exploration of how the individual is shaped by their social context, historical legacy, national and cultural identities.

Vadim Rotari (1991) spent most of his professional life outside photography in a business world. Having received BA and MS in International Management from GSOM, Saint-Petersburg, Russia he has worked in several companies in Russia and Japan. In 2023 he graduated Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, course "Modern photography and visual culture" and he is now pursuing his passion in photography.

Right now he is engaged in a project dedicated to researching & archiving surviving objects of monumental art of Moldova SSR.

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