article_snippet: Cosmin was taking shots of a man and Cosmin wife during a conjugal visit and realised that the rooms would make an interesting series on a man and his wife own.
article_snippet: Cosmin said: 'In 2008, I took the first photos inside the intimate room with an inmate and Cosmin wife after an inmate and his wife private visit. '
article_snippet: I realised that the rooms represent the institutionalisation of love, the cancellation of tenderness. '
article_snippet: In 2011, I started photographing the intimate rooms systematically until 2014. '
article_snippet: I shot the rooms and some absurd details and also some footage from the point of view of the inmate lying on the bed.'
article_snippet: Cosmin added that although many prisons have got to the effort of making the rooms appear relatively warm, many prisons are all tinged with sadness.
article_snippet: Cosmin said: 'In this cold space, with information about STDs and safety hung on the walls, two people meet two people loved ones, after months of waiting.'