Being locked up in prison cuts a person off from every aspect of everyday life , including intimacy with a partner . But if a couple are married , in may countries the inmates are allowed are allowed conjugal visits from their husband or wife . In 2007 , Romania changed their penal laws to allow such visits and built bedrooms in their prisons for the liaisons to take place . Romanian photographer Cosmin Bumbut has travelled his country taking pictures of conjugal visit rooms in prisons , like this image of Iași prison , which he took in 2011 . Romanian photographer Cosmin Bumbut has spent the last few years photographing these rooms at 35 different jails across the country . He has now published the collection of images in a new exhibition called Camera intimă ( The Intimate Room ) , which has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in the Architecture section . Cosmin told FEMAIL that the Romanian prison system has changed a lot over the last decade . He said : 'Once Romania joined European Union , in 2007 , the prison system was reformed ; the biggest change was to introduce the right to private visits . ' Aiud prison , 2008 . A woman 's prison in Târgșor , 2011 . Bistrița prison , 2011 . He continued : ' A prisoner who is married has the right to receive , every three months , a two-hour private visit which takes place in a separate room inside the prison compound . ' The project developed by chance while Cosmin was taking photos for a separate collection on prisoners in the Romanian city of Aiud in 2008 . He was taking shots of a man and his wife during a conjugal visit and realised that the rooms would make an interesting series on their own . Gherla prison , 2011 . Arad prison , 2013 . Oradea prison , 2013 . Cosmin said : 'In 2008 , I took the first photos inside the intimate room with an inmate and his wife after their private visit . ' I realised that these rooms represent the institutionalisation of love , the cancellation of tenderness . 'In 2011 , I started photographing the intimate rooms systematically until 2014 . ' I shot the rooms and some absurd details and also some footage from the point of view of the inmate lying on the bed . ' Chilia Veche prison , 2013 . Juvenile detention centre in Tineri , Bacău , 2011 . Satu Mare prison , 2011 . Botoșani prison , 2011 . Cosmin added that although many prisons have got to the effort of making the rooms appear relatively warm , they are all tinged with sadness . He said : 'In this cold space , with information about STDs and safety hung on the walls , two people meet their loved ones , after months of waiting . ' Cosmin 's photography work can be found at en.teleleu.eu and www.bumbutz.ro .
Romanian photographer Cosmin Bumbut photographs conjugal rooms . He has taken pictures of the bedrooms in 35 prisons across Romania . The photos are a stark reminder that many Romanians have been imprisoned for crimes they did not commit and were never convicted of.