Video: Longing for a Dog: Nice to Meet You Photo Project by Martin Usborne
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
How often, having met a friend, we only have time to throw a couple of phrases on the run. "Hey! How are you?" - "Fine". Such speech cliches are becoming the norm in our life, although sometimes the warmth of human communication is lost behind them. "Nice to Meet You" ("Glad to see you") - a conceptual project of the London photographer Martin Usborne about loneliness and emptiness.
Martin Usborne has been fond of dogs for a long time, on the site Kulturologiya.ru we have already talked about his cycle "Silence of dogs in cars". Dogs, who once again found themselves alone, served as models for the Nice to Meet You series of photographs. However, it is not the glass of the car that protects them from the outside world, but a cloud of smoke, a window or a piece of cloth. This veil is a symbol of that impenetrable emotional barrier that often remains between a dog and a person. Each portrait is complemented by one of a dozen everyday phrases, which we also often pronounce automatically.
The idea for the project was born out of the blue. Once, walking in a terrible mood, Martin Usborne met a stranger, who, turning to him, politely greeted him and asked how he was doing. After mechanically answering that everything was in order, the photographer wondered what was pushing people to hide sad feelings from other people. He decided to match human faceless emotions with how animals behave. He selected untrained and often aggressive dogs as models.
The sad eyes of the dogs, hidden behind the veil, have become a kind of metaphor for those hidden emotions that a person hides behind the screen of familiar phrases. However, the photographer himself emphasizes that the project tells not only about the deafness of others to human suffering, but also about the fact that animals also cannot declare their needs, because the owners' task is to be more sensitive to their pets.
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