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Life framer open call11/21/2023 ![]() My goal was once to document forest fights. The reason why some faces are blurred is because certain people do not want to be recognizable for legal reasons. Of the thousands of images I have saved forty, sometimes of poor quality. By searching for the material that I had already sent, I was able to recover a small part of years of labor. ![]() Until today I received nothing in return. Police and justice do not believe that I am investigating this subculture, but believe that I am involved. In April 2018 I was arrested and I ended up in jail for three weeks. But the search swallowed me up more than I could ever have imagined. The doors opened increasingly hesitantly for me. Why do these men do this for pleasure? Three years ago I decided to make an attempt to gain access to this hermetically sealed world. ![]() Teams compete with each other in a very organized way, with rules – and strict secrecy. Fighters who volunteered to fight for the colors of their club recently found a new home: remote forests. The contrast of dark and light, hard edges and soft focus, is just exquisite. These patterns represent the transformation we all go through as creative beings.”Įditor’s comment: A beautiful, poetic treatment of the human body that evokes the aesthetic of the photogram technique pioneered by Man Ray. It captures raw lines, calm movement and natural distortion. Creating images, like building sculptures, with the bodies we’ve been given and with the purpose to challenge the eye, and to make us feel something real. Inspired by the eyes of a sculptor, this project explores the concept of creating shapes and forms, with and within our bodies, that can only be seen when you stop looking through the eyes of the public. Something that doesn’t consist of ego and judgement, but of empathy and kindness. The connection to who we truly are, to being present within our physical form and using it to make the ones around us feel something real. Because of that, we keep ourselves from making some of the most important connections we can experience in this world. From a young age, we learn to view ourselves through the eyes of the public, instead of the eyes of our true selves. In this day and age, our bodies are still overly sexualised in our everyday lives. A form that changes, when you change your perspective on it. the series What do you see when you’re not looking? An ongoing exploration of the human body, essence and form.
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