100 SURREAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHS - B&W

TZEN XING (USA)
We are spending so much time to talk about depth of field
and how to give to a 2-dimensional photograph a sense of 3-
dimensions.
We are using shadows and reflections in the quest for
abstraction. We experiment with volumes and colours, with
staged subjects, with peculiar juxtapositions looking for the
surrealist mood.
And all of the sudden here comes the author of the present
picture with a flat wall, with no manipulations or mannerisms,
with a piece of his reality, cut as little as it takes, no more no
less, to surprise us, to *punch* our visual stimuli (R, Barthes’
punctum). She is transmitting her message, full of questions,
on the enigma of humanity and the absence of it.
Only after we have been out of the obscure self questioning
on how is it possible this earth to treat its children so
differently, how the unfairness is so visible yet so invisible
when we choose to close our eyes . . . only after that, we might
check the composition of the present picture. And, not to our
surprise, everything is there. The haunting, uneven, crossing
lines, the obsessively repeated patterns of the grids, the open
wounds in the concrete, the desperate grip of the child on the
window.
Once again the sequence is the following (talent, analysis,
rules) and not the other way round.
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