Video: We are alone in this world: sad photographs by Martin Stranka
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No matter how sociable we are, every person in this world is, in principle, lonely, and truly sincere can only be alone with himself or with the night sky. It is these thoughts that arise when watching sad photos Martin Stranka, in which the loneliness of people, presented in dark colors and with a very unusual play of light and shadow, is simply mesmerizing.
Loneliness is a topic that is both scary and exciting, and is cherished by many writers and artists. In many ways, it is paradoxical, because being alone is something very scary on the one hand, and extremely necessary on the other. There are many beautiful sad photographs that directly or indirectly touch on this topic. Directly - in the works of Stefan Opits, in which the theme of loneliness and its beauty runs like a red thread. Indirectly - in the sincere works of the genius Donata Wenders, in which this feeling can be read on many faces. Martin Stranka is another photographer who has put the sad, the dark and the beautiful in one niche.
Already by the way in which Martin Stranka reflects the theme of loneliness (and it looks to him as if a person is suspended between two worlds, the real one and the world of dreams), it becomes clear that the photographer is not from the USA. He is from Prague and his work has won him many awards. For example, in the “Best Digital Camera Photographer 2010” award, he was nominated in several categories at once, just as the masterpieces of cinema receive several Oscar nominations at once. In just 2009-2010, he received more than two dozen awards.
Unfortunately, Martin Stranka is one of those artists who prefer to speak the language of numbers from the page of their biography: dates of exhibitions, the number of awards received, and so on. Fortunately, sad photos Martin Stranka speaks for itself about loneliness. On his website, he did not stint on a portfolio, so if you have a free minute, stop by and enjoy the gloomy notes of our reality again.
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