I feel that photography has long been more than just to catch the moment, and requires intensive intervention from the photographer, because the truth has never been so far away to be easily caught.
Just to imagine that we are always in a stream of humanity and sometimes all what need to do is to take a break, to look around and feel this celebration of the routine. The still image starts from the mind, and the camera only registers it in the physical world. This project describes an “outside” state. I put the occurring in the field of fantasy, of an “incubator” – the place where emotions, pain, vulnerability and experience are naked, where situations are somewhat absurd, associative, where they echo childhood, and question female and male nature. A play implying the contact with object functions as a search, a test and discovery of various thresholds of the sensuous and an exploration of relations with one’s self and the environment. I make a kind of performance using staged photography and inserting scenes in which distortion or discomfort occurs. And my wish was to show and create by distortion, absurdity, environment cleaning some true space. My photography, as absurd as it may seem, is based on everyday work and activities we do as human beings. I tend to intensify the moments we don’t give much attention to, responses and behaviors that characterize us as people. I can take a scene of brushing teeth and make it into a drama, or compress into a scene of dishwashing other layers that will tell an emotion-packed story. For me, every photo is another documentation of our world, another detail in the mosaic of the human comedy and drama. With every photo I’m re-amazed about the world – the fact we exist as humans, that we have nature, that we move our lips and words come out, that we wear cloths and diverse, we see dreams, love someone, cry, that there are so many old and new objects which you can touch and smell, that there are conflicts and love and moods. And many other things which can be used as topics for photos.
Just to imagine that we are always in a stream of humanity and sometimes all what need to do is to take a break, to look around and feel this celebration of the routine. The still image starts from the mind, and the camera only registers it in the physical world. This project describes an “outside” state. I put the occurring in the field of fantasy, of an “incubator” – the place where emotions, pain, vulnerability and experience are naked, where situations are somewhat absurd, associative, where they echo childhood, and question female and male nature. A play implying the contact with object functions as a search, a test and discovery of various thresholds of the sensuous and an exploration of relations with one’s self and the environment. I make a kind of performance using staged photography and inserting scenes in which distortion or discomfort occurs. And my wish was to show and create by distortion, absurdity, environment cleaning some true space. My photography, as absurd as it may seem, is based on everyday work and activities we do as human beings. I tend to intensify the moments we don’t give much attention to, responses and behaviors that characterize us as people. I can take a scene of brushing teeth and make it into a drama, or compress into a scene of dishwashing other layers that will tell an emotion-packed story. For me, every photo is another documentation of our world, another detail in the mosaic of the human comedy and drama. With every photo I’m re-amazed about the world – the fact we exist as humans, that we have nature, that we move our lips and words come out, that we wear cloths and diverse, we see dreams, love someone, cry, that there are so many old and new objects which you can touch and smell, that there are conflicts and love and moods. And many other things which can be used as topics for photos.
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