There’s something quietly magnetic about the way Marie Romanova photographs the world. Based in Luxembourg, she’s not just a portrait photographer — she’s a visual poet. The kind who doesn’t need words to tell you how someone feels, or what a place holds in its silence. When Marie picks up her camera, she goes still — listening, observing, almost like she’s waiting for a song only she can hear. And once she hears it, she translates it into images that feel timeless.
“I’m a cinematic portrait photographer based in Luxembourg. When I do photography I become quiet to hear the music of my subjects and then I translate that feeling into what I call visual poetry.”
In this series, she takes us on a journey through one of the cities that speaks most to her heart. A place where she says her heartbeat syncs with the rhythm of the streets. You can sense it in her photos — the way she captures a passing gull, the light on stone, the in-between moments that most people miss.
“ In this series I captured one of the most poetic cities I’ve ever visited. It’s a place where I feel my heart beats in rhythm with the city itself. I loved exploring it through my lens, watching seagulls fly and almost flying with them.”
Marie doesn’t shoot to document. She shoots to imagine. To stretch time. To ask: what if we were standing here decades ago? Inspired by icons like Saul Leiter and Henri Cartier-Bresson, her work slips between eras, giving us glimpses of stories that could’ve happened yesterday or a hundred years ago.
There’s magic in how she sees — and lucky for us, she lets us see it too.
This article was published in Silicon Luxembourg magazine.
