Sergey Varaksin

[awty]

Sergey Varaksin

https://phmuseum.com/sergey_varaksin/story/the-provincial-dreams-series-in-three-parts-6440a16b86
https://www.worldphoto.org/it/node/2055
http://www.fractionmagazine.com/sergey-varaksin
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145129614@N03/

 

[MattKing]

That is seriously unsettling and powerful photography.
Thank you for the links.

 

[awty]

That is seriously unsettling and powerful photography.
Thank you for the links.

Really? I dont find any unsettling. Imaginative I think, slight dark humor maybe, who knows how the Russians think. Interesting use of double exposure and movement.

 

[MattKing]

I find the images quite eerie - as if they are photos of ghosts.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I follow him on Flickr. As we say in Russian, we don't know what he drinks...

 

[GRHazelton]

The stuff of nightmares.....

 

[winger]

Cool stuff! I wish I were half that creative.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Reminds me of Eugene Meatyard's work.

 

[awty]

Reminds me of Eugene Meatyard's work.

Wow! I dont think I have seen his work before, fantastic pictures, thanks.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Wow! I dont think I have seen his work before, fantastic pictures, thanks.

I've always been a fan his his stuff. Nice to see someone contemporary following the same vein.

 

[jtk]

Powerful stuff. It really works. Unusually literate for a photographer.

"
This series of the presented photos is called "Dream". It was created after reading the eleventh lecture, "Dream Work", from Sigmund Freud's book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis in which he says that "thanks to overlaying against each other separate condensed units there is, as a rule, not clear, indistinct picture, like that which turns out if on one photographic plate to make some pictures".

With this series, I hope to transfer the feeling of fragility and unreliability surrounding us in dream of the world.

This series was realized on a Holga camera, which allowed the making of repeated and imposing photographs. The chamber moved after each pressing the trigger button that the effect of trembling, alarm and uncertainty was gained."

 

[jtk]

Really? I dont find any unsettling. Imaginative I think, slight dark humor maybe, who knows how the Russians think. Interesting use of double exposure and movement.

Returning to your comment, above: While it appears that Varaksin finds children and inconsequential buildings easy sources of emotionally loaded imagery, he occasionally ventures away from those safety nets...

for example :

 

[awty]

Returning to your comment, above: While it appears that Varaksin finds children and inconsequential buildings easy sources of emotionally loaded imagery, he occasionally ventures away from those safety nets...

for example :

Exploring his dark desires towards his mother.....Thats what Freud would say wouldnt he.
I like the girl with pig tails and an arrow.
I find he has great imagination and purpose which is seldom achieved in photography. Something I admire in a picture.