Video: A little sun in the cold water. Photo-landscapes by Marc Benslahdine
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Let's say right away: Mark Bensladin - not a photographer at all. Of course, if you consider a photographer who makes money with his craft, habitually clicking wedding corteges or press conferences of regional politicians. Mark Bensladin - just System Administratorwho "dabbles" in photography at his leisure; but perhaps that is why his works attract thousands of spectators with the freshness and ease of a poetic view of the world. Especially the photographer succeeds in river landscapes, in which some sun so organically dissolves into cold water, what…
… It is impossible not to tell about them. Mark Bensladin lives in France, in the town of Chelles, which is 19 kilometers from Paris … By the way, the French capital itself, with its romantic flair, old quarters and night streets, is also reflected in a series of works by the photographer - but today we are not talking about them, but about sun and water … Just the sun and just water - it would seem, what new can be said about them? But it is in this simplicity of the theme that the power of Bensladin's photographs lies, noted by dozens of critics.
The sky is the eternal theme of photo artists, and everyone tries to reveal its epicness in their own way: Zsolt Zsigmond shows the sky through reflection in the Gothic architecture of the cities of Hungary, Nathan Spotts reveals the beauty of heaven and earth in majestic vertical panoramas … Mark Bensladin's creative method is a look at the sky and the sun through the reflection in the water.
"A little sun in cold water"- the famous novel of the French writer Françoise Sagan, and a phrase that can be described both the river landscapes of Bensladin and his views of Paris, reflected in the waters of the Seine. At the same time, if the city panorama is usually night or dull cloudy, then in river landscapes the photographer gives Instinctively I want to hide behind my hand from the glow of dawn, flooding the sky and water with warm, and sometimes even fiery rays. the capital, she is too cold to really love her.
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