Arthur Shuraev (Rusia)

  Im interested in the space before and after, i believe that it is not a single image we are looking at, but the space, our imaginative space of before and after. As Susan Sontag writes in her book On Photography. As the fascination that photographs exercise is a reminder of death, it is also an invitation to sentimentality and  A photograph could also be described as a quotation, which makes a book of photographs like a book of quotations. I can not agree with this more, the sentimentality, nostalgia, photography as quotation, everyday, loneliness, emptiness are key ideas behind my photographic works. Project is entitled  Outsiders . One month in a year we have an opportunity to leave the everyday life around us and to give more attention to what we lack. Project shows the fragments of time experienced by me and my acquaintances at the moment of our freedom...