Karton Tandem 3: Aura

Karton Tandem is a magazine dedicated to accidental encounters, free associations and experimentation in photography and literary writing. Karton Tandem explores the concept of reality in multiple dialogic formulas between a photographer and an author, each issue imagining possible perspectives of looking at and describing the present. Karton Tandem is dedicated to Romanian contemporary photography.

Dora Tishmann, born in the former Yugoslavia (Serbia), has lived in France since 2005. A graduate of the National University of Arts, Bucharest, she has in recent years focused mainly on photography, finding inspiration in creation myths and the origins of the universe, as well as in langua- ges, scripts, and alphabets, which she interprets through body and movement. Transformation, metamorphosis, and animation are central to the photographic series in which she explores energy, the invisible, and the phenomenon of psychokinesis. Her most recent work investigates the mate- riality of light via experimental photography and employing electricity as a medium.

Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu is a prose writer, poet, essayist, translator, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collections After the Battle We Stopped to Catch Our Breath (2012) and anaBASis (2014). Since translated into several languages, his début novel The Childhood of Kaspar Hauser (2017) was awarded the Prose Prize of the Thoreau’s Nephew (Nepotu’ lui Thoreau) Literature Club, the Radio Romania Cultural Prose Prize, and the 2018 Chambéry First Novel Festival Award, and was shortlisted for the 2018 European Union Prize for Literature. In 2019, he published the biographical novel Caragiale. The Lost Letter, and in 2021 the collection of poems Adorable Etruscans, winner of the George Coșbuc National Poetry Award. His novel Abraxas (2022) received the Observator cultural magazine prize for prose, the Ziarul de Iași prize for prose, and the Romanian Academy prize for fiction. His latest novel, The Black Sun, has been awarded the Bookzone Book of the Year prize and the Union of Romanian Writers Prize for Fiction. In 2025, he published a book of essays entitled The Cuban Fish: A Century in Essays.