honorable mention
Tadas Juras lithuania
title
Out of
On the one hand we see objects (man, boat) that are out of focus. On the other hand the man of the photographs is out of the coast, out of the familiar setting, in a space which has no distinct features, that is unknown and obscure. He is struggling with the water and in this process he himself loses his clearly defined human form. He is far away from any attributes of human existence, from human Earth. He is out of…
…boating away…
out of the coast
out of the rigid world of names and forms
out of the clearly defined “I” and “you”
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entry description
Here I present experiments with movement. As with any other experiments, the author here is not the one who decides how the results will look like. He just witnesses them. And who is the author in such a case? The man behind the camera, the objects, drawing the pictures by their movements, or the observer, who animates the image in his mind?On the one hand we see objects (man, boat) that are out of focus. On the other hand the man of the photographs is out of the coast, out of the familiar setting, in a space which has no distinct features, that is unknown and obscure. He is struggling with the water and in this process he himself loses his clearly defined human form. He is far away from any attributes of human existence, from human Earth. He is out of…
…boating away…
out of the coast
out of the rigid world of names and forms
out of the clearly defined “I” and “you”
about the photographer
Tadas Juras (b. 1977) is photographer and book translator from Lithuania based in Spain. As an anthropologist by education he became interested in photography which is one of the tools of anthropology. Since 2007 he was developing project Kaivalya, dedicated to cultural aspects of East. Along with this he became fond of fine art photography. Tadas exhibites his works in photo exhibitions in Spain and other countries.back to gallery