HALF LIFE
2005 - 2007
Why Half Life? The photography always considered like something partly related to reality and partly based on interpretation by the viewer. Each understanding of photographs is based on collective archetypical information fields, photographer’s own psychological motives and viewer’s interpretation.
Visually I am interested in traces by humans building their homes, searching for shelter, settling environment for surviving and leisure. Symbolically my works are based on representation of sequences of a struggle between a modern human and nature. Thus while shooting I am mostly fascinated by suburbs where visually is not clear who dominates in this endless struggle of evolution and concurrence between nature and a human. It is important for me to show environment, which on the one hand symbolizes my self-understanding and on the other hand characterizes a desire of society to survive and reproduce fighting out its own place in nature. Such environment is in a transit point between the wild and the modernized, the dead, the living and its traces, the meaningful and the absurd.
Works included are made during 2005 and 2007 in Daugavpils, Riga (Latvia), Berlin (Germany), Arhangelsk, Moscow (Russia), Sauļi (Lithuania), Mexico City (Mexico), Oxford (England), Lisbon (Portugal), and Durban, Johannesburg (South Africa).
© Alnis Stakle
photographs
Digital C-prints on aluminium, diasec 50cmx50cm (ed 12) / 100cmx100cm (ed 5)
2005 - 2007
Why Half Life? The photography always considered like something partly related to reality and partly based on interpretation by the viewer. Each understanding of photographs is based on collective archetypical information fields, photographer’s own psychological motives and viewer’s interpretation.
Visually I am interested in traces by humans building their homes, searching for shelter, settling environment for surviving and leisure. Symbolically my works are based on representation of sequences of a struggle between a modern human and nature. Thus while shooting I am mostly fascinated by suburbs where visually is not clear who dominates in this endless struggle of evolution and concurrence between nature and a human. It is important for me to show environment, which on the one hand symbolizes my self-understanding and on the other hand characterizes a desire of society to survive and reproduce fighting out its own place in nature. Such environment is in a transit point between the wild and the modernized, the dead, the living and its traces, the meaningful and the absurd.
Works included are made during 2005 and 2007 in Daugavpils, Riga (Latvia), Berlin (Germany), Arhangelsk, Moscow (Russia), Sauļi (Lithuania), Mexico City (Mexico), Oxford (England), Lisbon (Portugal), and Durban, Johannesburg (South Africa).
© Alnis Stakle
photographs
Digital C-prints on aluminium, diasec 50cmx50cm (ed 12) / 100cmx100cm (ed 5)