Video: Drowning: people underwater. Allegorical photographs by Alban Grosdidier
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is such a common expression "lucky as a drowned man." French photographer Alban Grosdidier dedicated a whole photo session to drowning people, combining their portraits into a series called Drowning … And although at the sight of these pictures you can feel a slight attack of claustrophobia, and especially impressionable ones will take their breath away, we hasten to warn you that during the photo session none of the participants was hurt. In fact, Drowning is an allegorical photo session in which water is not water at all, but drowned people are living and completely healthy people. The chest tightens with an iron ring, the lungs do not have enough air, the consciousness is seized by panic, and the feeling of hopelessness displaces all other feelings, responding with pulsating pain in the temples - you cannot envy a drowning person. In his art project Drowning, the French photographer compared the inhabitants of huge cities with drowning people. Every day they are exposed to colossal pressure from society, stress at work and at home, and a busy schedule of work, study, social stress and taking on obligations gradually turn into an unbearable burden that slowly but surely pulls a person to the bottom.
But, as they say, the rescue of drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves, and in the case of the "sinking" inhabitants of megalopolises, this statement works the same way. In both cases, some people humbly accept their fate, fold their hands and doomly go under the water, while others, who are usually called "fighters" and strong people, find the strength to resist pressure, and in the end, swim to the surface and get if not to land, then to the nearest solid surface or support.
The author presented an impromptu exposition of portraits of people submerged under water on the streets of Paris, hanging huge printed copies of photographs from the allegorical project Drowning along the Saint-Martin Canal.
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