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Maria Svarbová is a young photographer from Slovakia. The girl was educated as an archaeologist-restorer, but then became interested in photography. It was in this environment that she found herself. Her unique personal artistic style has helped win Maria international recognition. In addition to all kinds of awards and nominations, her work was published in such influential publications as Vogue, Forbes and The guardian.
Maria was born in Bratislava (Slovakia) in 1988. She still lives and works there. She became interested in photographic art in 2010. Maria had to work on her style for a very long time until she discovered her own.
At the very beginning of her career, Svarbova moved away from all traditional ideas about photography, completely focusing on creative experiments with color, atmosphere and space. Maria's works show an interest in architecture and buildings from the socialist era.
The person and his body in Svarbova's photographs become something like a foundation, a support, but without any signs of emotion and individuality. The photographs of the photographer give off a kind of sterility and resemble fragments of dreams. At the same time, they cause a feeling of tension and a certain anxiety, and at the same time filling with a certain contemplative calmness.
Maria Svarbova says about her works this way: "The atmosphere that I depict with the help of a palette of pastel colors immerses the viewer in a disinfected world, where the heroes decided to abandon any kind of excesses that could reveal them."
The photographer creates landscapes of simply unique beauty! The composition in her photographs is so carefully thought out that any everyday activity frozen in a camera frame takes on a completely different, new meaning.
In her works, Maria chose the method of an absolute departure from traditional portrait photography. Her models are placed in the boring gray everyday life of the urban environment. The most favorite public places for Svarbova were and are the old Soviet swimming pools. It was these photographs that brought her worldwide fame.
Maria Svarbova loves to film such mundane human affairs as a visit to the doctor, shopping, swimming in the pool, walking. All this dullness and everyday life lends itself to rethinking and appears before the viewer as a visually clean, soothing and symmetrical frame.
This sterile world and people who look more like mannequins give a certain unnatural beauty to the everyday life of human existence.
After that, retouchers-photo editors are called to give the images completeness. Thanks to their work, the boundaries between people seem to be blurred in photographs, they are deprived of their personality. This creates the same feeling of loneliness and isolation.
The photo artist manages to achieve in this way such a necessary and complex effect as the complete immersion of the viewer in the atmosphere of contemplation. In our dynamic, too fast-changing world, it is extremely important to just stop.
When you look at these stunning frozen frames, it seems that they are about to come to life and gain mobility. Despite all the seeming coldness of Maria Svarbova's works, each picture reflects her desire to evoke respect for the world around us with its incomparable and unique beauty.
If you are interested in the art of photography, read our article on how a Russian photographer takes monochrome photos, turning ballerinas into flowers.
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