Video: People and Waterfalls in the Fog by Jeff Bark
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Lucifer's Falls sounds pretty ominous, doesn't it? And the name of this place on the border of New York State with Canada fully corresponds to its notoriety: too many suicides found peace here, among the rocks. American photographer Jeff Bark decided that this place is the best fit for his new project, in which the picturesque beauty and mystery of this place intersects with human loneliness.
Oddly enough, waterfalls, such picturesque places, are not in demand among contemporary artists. Apparently, because many commonplace photos of waterfalls have become the property of uninteresting calendars. Still, you can recall several projects - for example, Steve Tobin's glass waterfalls, or some photographs of a true connoisseur of nature, Vincent Favre. However, Jeff Bark's work is truly valuable because people and waterfalls here they present a very unusual concept. Moreover, judging by the earlier works of the photographer, the fate of these lonely people is really gloomy.
Lucifer's Falls is still the last of Jeff Bark's existing projects, and the most atypical for him. He presented it at the Haster Hunt Kraeutler gallery. Jeff Bark was born in 1963, grew up in Minnesota, Lake District, now lives and works in New York. He is known primarily for his studio projects. Usually these projects featured naked people in very unusual situations. One of the latest projects of this kind is called “Rainbow of Flesh”.
The people and waterfalls in Jeff's photographs seem to be phenomena from some other planet, it was somewhat strange to know that the place called Lucifer Falls is located on the outskirts of New York State, which everyone associates with the center of modern culture and society. “Everyone can take a picture of the waterfall. The only way to create something original in this area is to control the light,”says Jeff Bark. As soon as he arrived at the shooting location, the feeling of unity with nature, with the surrounding landscape, captured him. Coming out of the reserve and seeing a small sign "To the Falls of Lucifer", he immediately understood what this project would be called about people and waterfalls.
“Lucifer's Falls” are saturated with the feeling of death. True, death here seems to be something majestic. It seems like a wonderful place to die. This effect is reinforced by the fact that all of Jeff's work was filmed in the rain or right in front of it, early in the morning or in the evening, when there was no light. Jeff wanted to avoid the stupid clichés of many photographers who shoot the first glare of the sun in order to do not just a landscape for calendars, but an emotionally intense work. Jeff often used smoke bombs to create more fog.
This project by Jeff Bark and the photographer's earlier studio projects can be viewed on his website.
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