I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area about four years ago. While I know that about seven and half million of people are living here I do not perceive Bay Area as highly populated. This series, entitled “Peopleless World”, explores the feelings of emptiness and discomfort experienced by megalopolis dweller in urban spaces in the areas with lesser population density.
To convey these feelings and ideas my project employs a combination of digital and traditional photographic...
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I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area about four years ago. While I know that about seven and half million of people are living here I do not perceive Bay Area as highly populated. This series, entitled “Peopleless World”, explores the feelings of emptiness and discomfort experienced by megalopolis dweller in urban spaces in the areas with lesser population density.
To convey these feelings and ideas my project employs a combination of digital and traditional photographic techniques: digitally captured images are transformed into digital negatives, that are then used to create bromoil prints. Bromoil is an alternative process used during the later XIX and early XX centuries, chiefly by Pictorialists to achieve painterly effect. This combination of rather modernist images with softness and dreaminess of the historical process represents the conflict between the statistical data and subjective perception.
This project is very personal and at the same time very challenging, both technically and conceptually. How to explain, how to show a viewer, who probably, has never lived in a megalopolis, how it feels not to be surrounded by people at all times? If they can feel it, see it in my photographs, then my efforts were not futile.
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