Video: The Colored Life of Helga Steppan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Once a photographer from Sweden Helga Steppan came up with a very simple and at the same time interesting idea: she gathered all her things, then arranged them by color and photographed each composition separately. Let's see what came of it.
Helga's photo project, called "See Through", includes twelve photographs. Eleven of them represent the most popular and common colors: white, black, red, yellow, blue, orange, green, pink, gray, brown and purple. In the last, twelfth photo, objects of different colors are combined into one bright and variegated image.
The resulting images, as conceived by the photographer, in addition to being interesting in themselves, should also induce the viewer to try to unravel the author's identity by the things belonging to him, grouped by color.
A curious and funny fact: a little later, Helga supplemented her project with a list called "Things I Forgot", in which she added objects that for one reason or another turned out to be outside the photographs. Among them, for example, a blue dress with butterflies ("I forgot because I was wearing it") or large photographs ("too many to find them all").
Helga Steppan graduated from the Royal College of Art (London) in 2004. She works in the photography genre, using elements of installation and performance. Exhibitions of the photographer's work are held both in her native Sweden and abroad: in the UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Spain and other countries.
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