Video: The rebellious spirit does not disappear: a series of portraits of elderly people who do not want to live by the rules
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A photographer from London has been running his project for several years now " Rebels without a pause", in which he captures people (most often the elderly) who flatly refuse to live" according to their age "and their culture, and instead enjoy life according to their own rules and are in complete harmony with themselves.
The series about the London rebels was born a few years ago when the photographer Mair Widler (Muir Vidler) was at the popular local Love Muscle club. There, Mair met Adrian Delgoffe, a man of about 60 in leather pants, a leather vest, and in general in an image that was very different from those around him. He just danced on his own, and, according to Widler's recollections, the photographer was in complete admiration for him, because the elderly man observed his own fashion, went out into people, and did not sit at home in front of the TV, like most of his peers.
“Adrien made me think about people who do not allow their age to define their essence, their clothes, the way they behave. These people make the world more interesting, funnier, better. I wanted to take portraits of such people to commemorate their individuality, to capture people who are not going to grow up, "- says Mair Vidler about his series of photographs" Rebels Without A Pause".
The British photographer finds heroes for his series, talks to them, explains the essence of his project and takes photographs at their home or where his heroes find it appropriate. Some of his heroes, despite their venerable age, are covered from head to toe with tattoos and are still eager to add a few new ones. For example, Isabelle Varley even got into the Guinness Book of Records as "The very tattooed elderly woman in the world", but this achievement did not stop her, and after Mair took a picture of her, Isabelle also covered her face with tattoos - for a complete set.
In the collection of Widler's photographs there are portraits of circus, nudists, rockers, bikers, fetishists and "slave owners" covered in shiny leather. There is "Elvis" still singing hits, and there is even openly gay who is also a skinhead. Perhaps, such a variety of acquaintances, which Mair Wilder has, should only be envied.
A similar project is also led by photographer Vladimir Yakovlev. His series of photographs presents seniors who are 70, 80, and sometimes even 100 years old, but who are full of energy and still follow their dreams, never ceasing to learn new things.
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