USR Senator Dan Lungu addressed an inpella Culture Minister Bogdan Gheorghiu, through whom he reported opportunity to establish a National Photography Museum in Iasi.

He argued his proposal with a of the photographic workshops of Iasi and the whole of Moldova extremely throughout history, but little known and popularized. From the argumentation of the not lack of the great personalities of the area who had as their passion photograph or identifying sources of exhibits that could stand by at the base of the museum: beyond the photographic heritage located in the archives or deposit of the various institutions in Iasi, the impressive "Agapi Collections", which, following the conclusion of a collaboration with the museum, the association in whose possession it is in its possession is willing to make them available. The first of the names of the photographers dan lungu mentioned in his interpellation is that of the logofăt Costache Strudza Scheianul. Starting from his caloguys from 1852, who give us Vasile's face Alecsandri young and Barbu Lăutaru, photographic art leads us then in Nestor Heck's workshop, known in the era as "the photographer Eminescu" or "of the Romanian elite", whose photographs then had great search." I will not just invoke the sad absence of a project similar at national level – although photography is an art, an invaluable source of documentation and a large social phenomenon – but, first ly, the work pioneering febrile photographic of Iasi, which has continuously accompanied effervescent cultural activity of national relevance. Among the pioneers of the Romanian-activity photography, we must remind Gustav A. Schivert, Michael Bisenius, Johann Deiner, Josef Eder, Felix Swiatoniowski, Lazar Czollak, M. Margulies, O. Flechner, Hartwig Chaland, H. Flaschner or workshops Rembrandt, Fanchette, Weiss, Wandelmann. Of course, we must not forget Bernhard. Brand, which makes a very special contribution: the collective portrait of members of Junimii, made in 1883", said Dan Lungu, senator Usr. He added that no photos should be forgotten which settled in Iasi after 1900, among them remembering Siegmund Packer and Gheorghe Chessler.The USR senator's initiative was joined, in order to support the proposal put forward to the Minister of Culture, and Nora Agapi, daughter photographer John Matei Agapi. The Romanian photographer is 83 years old today and is a well-known teacher, documentary filmmaker and photographer who, after completing the studies, he documented on photographic film and many of the events in Iasi and the country. Today, the whole its work, an archive of 21,000 meters of film, kept next door thousands of photographic negatives, most made by John Agapi from 1967 and dozens of cameras, cameras, and zooming machines, development tanks, lighting lamps, and and specialized journals are in the possession of the Association "Collections of Agapi." Following a collaboration with the museum, the association would be, according to Nore Agapi, willing to make available the entire archive of the starting point of the project. "There are even plates in the archive photographic images made by The Father of John Matei Agapi, with family images from 1930s, as well as images from the second world war front. I must mention that the family owns all the original film boxes, paper and chemicals that have existed over the years, and the originality of the collections is also given by the fact that each box or chemical recipe has a story next to each one," said Nora Agapi.