TITLE: 2 + 2 = 5

“I am not a cat, I am the Big Brother!” Big Brother is a fictional character in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Also, 2 + 2 = 5 is a dogmatic statement of Ingsoc philosophy, used in the same novel. Orwell took inspiration from a real event in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1931, Yakov Guminer made a propaganda poster, meaning "The arithmetic of an industrial-financial counter-plan: 2 + 2 plus the enthusiasm of the workers = 5". Joseph Stalin proclaimed that the plan could be achieved in four years instead of five, but the targets were simply unrealistic. The first five-year plan of the Soviet Union started in 1928 and finished in 1932. The first five-year plan of Romania began in 1951 and the last one stopped in 1989. I was born in Romania, so I lived under the dystopian terror that George Orwell described in “1984.” Our Communist Party has always tried to manipulate the truth. "Two plus two equals five” is the symbol of the lies that the Communist Party presented his truth to be accepted. “I am not a cat, I can hear, see and smell your fear, because I am EVERYWHERE!”

AUTHOR: Mariana Silvana Dedu (Romania)

I was born in Targoviste, Romania, in 1976.
I graduated from the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania, in 2006.
I attended the start-up advertising photography course at ILAS Designers School in Naples, Italy, in 2017.

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Honorable Mention in Conceptual Category in 7th edition of Chromatic Awards 2023;
Honorable Mention in People Category in 6th edition of Monovisions Photography Awards 2022;
Offical Selection in People Category in 8th edition of Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022;
Honorable Mention in People Category in 8th edition of Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022;
Honorable Mention in Conceptual Category in 5th edition of Monovisions Photography Awards 2021;
Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year Shortlist 2020, sub category Pink Lady® Apple a Day;
Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year Shortlist 2018, sub category Food for the Family;
Collettive photography exhibition at the Palace of Arts in Naples 2016;