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Alina Trifan

Images and words carefully arranged by Alina Trifan twice a month.

Created 30 Jan 2021

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#16: Daimon
05 Apr 2022 • 7 2
Back in 2016, Martino Pietropoli wrote a piece on my photography. It’s in Italian, I’ll translate: “So Alina doesn't do anything spectacular. She does not hang out with famous people, she does not vis...
Dear Padua #4
21 Mar 2022 • 12 0
I need to stop promising things. Last time I said I would be writing about a time I felt wanted, but what if I didn’t feel like it anymore? Luckily, the sun is out, I had some coffee, so I do feel lik...
#15: Tradition is a pattern
09 Mar 2022 • 6 2
We’re nine days into the month of Mărțișor. I prepared a traditional red and white bouquet for you. Doing something twice counts as a tradition around here. Bouquet Bouquet #3 - Mărțișor I was born in...
Dear Padua #3
23 Feb 2022 • 15 4
Bouquet is one year old. To mark the occasion, this newsletter’s schedule is all over the place. I wrote a couple of drafts. One was happy, one was sad, one was a 3 am version of a newsletter. Nothing...
Dear Padua #2
24 Jan 2022 • 4 3
I’m at an impasse with this newsletter’s edition. I don’t like leaving things incomplete, but I also realized I would have to share more than I’m comfortable with as the story progresses. Some days I’...
#14: Winter Flowers II
04 Jan 2022 • 9 2
I haven’t properly slept since the winter solstice. I live as if I were in the EST timezone. At this point, the easiest solution for me is to move to New York. How are you? Happy new year! One of my r...
#13: Quiet
07 Dec 2021 • 5 4
This is the one place on the internet where I feel I can be 100% true to myself. And today that means not talking a lot, just whispering some things here and there. I took a lot of photos this past mo...
Dear Padua #1
15 Nov 2021 • 4 0
I recently received an email that was meant for another Alina Trifan. A university contacted Alina about her paper, "Understanding Depression from Psycholinguistic Patterns in Social Media Texts". I r...
#12: Elevator story
02 Nov 2021 • 3 0
When I was a child, I developed a fear of elevators. It was a perfectly rational fear. You’d be scared of the elevators built during the Soviet Union, too. They're not like those fancy lifts with mirr...
#11: Some rain, some shine
05 Oct 2021 • 4 2
Yesterday I logged into my Instagram account. I wanted to let people know that I was sending a newsletter today. As a result, three things happened: I received about five “welcome back” messages (I am...
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