Harley Weir’s expansive, powerful vision of modern-day witches
Photographer Harley Weir and designer Dilara Findikoglu collaborated on an expansive photographic project documenting Romanian women engaged in witchcraft practices. Over five days across eight Romanian cities and villages, they photographed and interviewed subjects including Mihaela Minca, matriarch of Europe’s most powerful witch clan, and her daughters. Findikoglu dressed the subjects in her avant-garde designs while Weir captured them through her distinctly feminine photographic sensibility. The project deliberately subverts the derogatory historical framing of ‘witch’ as a term, instead presenting witchcraft as a lineage of female knowledge and reclaimed feminine power. The artists discuss their understanding of witchcraft as inherent knowledge within all women, rejecting supernatural stereotypes in favor of exploring how the label has historically functioned to demonize women’s autonomy and spiritual agency.
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