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Ion Zupcu is a fine art photographer who was born in Romania in 1960. He has recently shown photographs of his own minimalist still lifes in various museums and galleries throughout the United States.

He initially studied photography in Romania in 1982, but this study was interrupted when he emigrated to the United States. In order to support his family who remained in Romania, he drove a taxi cab in New York City.

Ion Zupcu is a conceptual photographer – first he sketches out his ideas, then constructs tiny one inch square sculptures from black paper.

Ion Zupcu is a conceptual photographer – first he sketches out his ideas, then constructs tiny one inch square sculptures from black paper.

Ion Zupcu's paper sheet photographs.

Ion Zupcu was born in Romania in and studied photography in Bucharest in the early s.

Romanian-born Ion Zupcu is playfully methodical when it comes to making art.

Romanian photographer Ion Zupcu's new images are a theme and variation exercise in photographing painted cubes, extending and expanding the stripped down.

After a chance meeting while driving this taxi, he was able to resume his practice when offered access to a darkroom.^[1]

Biography

In 1993, he began studying at the International Center for Photography in New York, where he was greatly influenced by the work of Ansel Adams.^[1] Zupcu's first project to gain attention was a series of still life photographs featuring flowers.

His next significant project involved photographing small scenes, often as small as 1 inch in size, using a square format Hasselblad camera. Through his const