Video: Incredible falls in Kerry Starbuck's photography project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If we talk about the ups and downs in the career of photographer Kerry Skarbakka, there will be much more of the latter. Falls in the literal sense that our hero makes in the name of art.
Kerry's photographs challenge death itself, because when looking at some of them it is difficult to believe that the hero's fall from a bridge or a high staircase was not the last in his life.
Of course, not everything is as scary as it might seem at first glance: it goes without saying that Kerry Skarbakka performs all his tricks with insurance. Nevertheless, the photographer has an acute shortage of models. Moreover, there are no people willing to pose at all, although, given the need to fall from a skyscraper or a high bridge, it is difficult to blame them for unwillingness to work. But the 38-year-old author is not discouraged and performs all the jumps on his own. At the same time, he emphasizes that he does not consider himself a great stuntman and does not sacrifice himself to art. Work safety is paramount for the photographer.
Kerry explains his photographs with the words of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, who describes human existence as "a process of continuous decline." We live in a world that constantly tests us for strength in a variety of ways. The presented series of photographs is Kerry's metaphorical understanding of the instability in the life of every person, the loss of the usual balance and fall in every sense of the word. The works of the photographer remind us of our vulnerability, and the human body at the moment of the fall symbolizes the inner struggle between the desire to survive and at the same time the desire to go beyond our materiality.
Kerry Starbucka is a visual artist working in the photography and video genre. Exhibitions of his work have been held in many renowned museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago, the Museum of Art of North Carolina, the Belgian gallery Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp and others.
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