Video: Sleepy kingdom: sleeping couples in unusual photos by Paul Schneggenburger
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is impossible to photograph a dream, but to observe what happens to a person throughout the whole night is quite. Photographer Paul Schneggenburger takes photographs of sleeping couples with a six-hour exposure and tries to find the emotions of his "models" in these gentle, mysterious pictures.
Schneggerberger's photocycle is called The sleep of the beloved - "The Dream of the Lovers" - and is inspired by the desire of a German photographer to explore not so much the process of sleep as the feelings of two people who share a bed with each other. "When two people in a love affair sleep side by side - what happens? Are they next to each other as if under duress, each on their own, or do they experience the same feelings and emotions?" Schneggerberger.
"What manifests itself in the night dance of lovers? Will some unspoken tenderness slip through here, or will they just turn their backs to each other in the end?" Asks Schneggerber. The way he gets answers to his questions cannot but be recognized as original. The photographer positions the camera directly over the bed and takes a long exposure for a clearly specified time frame - from midnight to six in the morning.
"Dance of the Lovers" began in the format of Schneggerberger's graduation project, which he began to implement in 2010. However, over time, the cycle went beyond the university where the future artist studied. To record on film the "dance" of each new couple, Schneggerbeger invites them to his own apartment - which he leaves for the time during which the picture is being prepared. "I prepare the scene - light the candles and disappear," says the photographer.
Readers of Kulturologia.ru are familiar with the work of many German photographers, such as Martin Klimas and Thomas Wehrer … With his original and sincere photo cycle, Schneggerberger does not get lost against the background of his older colleagues; it will be interesting to see what the young photographer will do in the future.
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