Video: Eye to eye: a photography project from Rankin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The importance and expressiveness of the human gaze has always been highly appreciated: a person's face can be absolutely impenetrable, but once you look into his eyes, everything becomes clear. But how often, meeting someone's gaze, do we pay attention not to the feelings conveyed to them, but to the beauty of the eye itself? Unlikely. But there is something to see. Perhaps such a familiar expression as "look someone in the eye" will take on a completely new meaning for you after seeing the work of the photographer Rankin from the "Eyescapes" series.
Rankin's special project focuses on photographs of the iris of people. Photographed from a very close distance and magnified several times, they resemble fantastic flowers or some unknown universes. Photos are eye-catching, mesmerizing, even hypnotizing. Who would have thought that in the ordinary human eye there is so much depth and unknown?
“Eyes are the first thing I look at when I meet a person,” says the photographer. "In this project, I asked people to communicate with the camera using their eyes." A grandiose yet simple idea and a truly impressive result.
The eyes of the photographer's relatives, friends and colleagues were used as "models" for the photographs.
Rankin is a renowned London-based photographer, publisher and, for some time now, also a filmmaker. The author has many photo projects that can be seen on the official website.
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