page_title: Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
section_title: Artistic and literary activity
hierarchical_section_title: Ioan Mihai Cochinescu / Artistic and literary activity
context_page_description: Ioan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.
context_section_description: During the 1980s he participated in literary circles of Bucharest, which included the Junimea literary circle, led by the critic Ovidiu S. Crohmălniceanu, the Mondays literary circle headed by professor Nicolae Manolescu, the "Ion Luca Caragiale" and other groups in Ploieşti, Câmpina, Mizil, Pucioasa and Slănic. Many of his colleagues and he fought against the Communist censorship.
  He has been published in the magazines "Argeș" (1968), "SLAST" (1986), and "Tribuna" (1987). A volume of short stories (1986 Publishing House "Cartea Romaneasca") the censors removed its narrations.
  
  He participated as an Art photographer from 1982–1986 in a number of international competitions in Romania, France, Brazil and Poland, where he won several awards. His essays, articles and translations have been published in the magazine "Fotografia". He is the creator of The Photoplan - and Photospacial Forms, shown in the galleries for photo art AAF (1983 Bucharest), Sala Dalles (1983 Bucharest) and 1986 in Poland. The first national salon for photographic essays, ESEF in Ploieşti was presented by him in 1986.
caption: Photoplan - and Photospatial Forms, AAF Photo Gallery in Bucharest - 1983
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