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Benches of Seattle

This work explores the relationship and interplay between austerity of modern cityscape and human emotions. With influences as diverse as minimalism and street photography, new insights are generated from juxtaposition of both visual and subcontextual symbols.

Ever since starting in photography, I have been fascinated by the endless variation of meanings in mundane city landscape. The narrative follows the points of human contact in the harsh and inhospitable modern city, and shows the realization of emptiness and loneliness of the urban world.

What starts out as stark and bleak, soon becomes finessed into a synergy of emotion, leaving only a vague sense of unforgiving, and the possibility of clemency and absolution. As momentary phenomena become clarified through emergent and visualizing narrative, the viewer is left with an epitaph for the human intimacy of our era.

 

Alexandr Lazarev