Video: Man and Wildlife: Custom Photo Landscapes by Ellen Kooi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Who of us didn’t want to feel like a fish in a river, a blade of grass in a field, a tree in a forest, a cloud in the sky? Man is the flesh of the flesh of nature, her, albeit prodigal, but still a son - this is reminiscent of the wonderful "humanized landscapes" Dutch photographer Ellen Coy … Moreover nature this - live, and not because Ellen Coy's paintings are replete with animals or bugs - but because everything, from stone to sky, in her photographs is imbued with the spirit of life.
Ellen Coy originally from the Dutch city of Leeuwarden (1962); graduated from the Academy of Arts in Groningen, and for a third of a century has been engaged in photography, living in Harlem (not the one in New York, but in the Dutch). She is a well-known master not only in her homeland, a participant in numerous exhibitions, a hero of publications - in general, an artist with a name. Her work is very diverse, but still one of the central themes of Ellen Coy, as we would formulate her - man and wildlife … Part and whole.
Ellen Coy's photographic landscapes usually attract attention immediately. contrast: a lonely person against the background of such a huge nature, often small and ridiculous - and sometimes even some kind of surreal. But the skill of her composition is such that unnaturalness is felt only at the first moment; and then, if you're lucky, you can feel the harmony of individuality and the world.
Man and wildlife in the photographs, Coy seems to freeze, penetrating into each other - but this does not deprive her of her subjects of inner strength and dynamism. I remember the pair dances of man with nature in works Jean-Paul Montfort … For the sake of fairness, we note that in terms of photographic skill, Ellen Coy leaves Montfort behind: her landscapes are extremely natural and fresh, the composition is non-standard, the contrasts are convex.
It is interesting that in her photographic landscapes, Ellen Coy usually avoids showing people's faces: she is more interested in the bodily plasticity of the characters. Maybe some impersonality is a payment for understanding nature, a way to somehow get closer to the world of forests, fields and rivers? One way or another, in the photographs Coy nature really looks humane, and man is natural.
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