Video: Don't lose face: surreal portraits of American Bryan Durushia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American Bryan Durushia does not look for easy ways - and does not even try, following everyone else, to make banal portrait photos of people in full face or profile. His photographic work is permeated with a strange, frightening surreal atmosphere - largely due to the fact that the model's faces cannot be seen on any of them.
Brian Durushya is from Minnesota and is only eighteen years old. Despite his young age, the photographer boasts a vivid imaginative thinking and professional ability to create a viscous, eerie atmosphere within the framework of a single static shot.
Durushya does not give any clarification about the background of his own photo cycle. As in the case of the works of surrealists, viewers have to "turn off" rational thinking in order to realize what a portrait of a strange creature with a pumpkin, goat's skull or sunflower instead of a head can communicate.
Not in all photographs, however, Durushya uses Photoshop. On some, the face is wrapped in bandages or hidden under the autumn foliage. But even such characters in the context of Durushya's whole photo cycle look like aliens from another world: either a fantasy Tolkien's Middle-earth, or an otherworldly urban nightmare in the spirit of "Silent Hill" (or the works of the photographer Kim Höltermann).
The roots of Fool's style can be found both in the daring experiments of artists of the early 20th century, and in more modern genres - horror and fantasy. Violent imagination and an ever-growing portfolio are signs that predict a great future in art for a young American.
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