100 SURREAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHS - B&W

RAFAEL IANOS (RO)
Francesca Woodman in "On being an angel" explores, in a
surrealist manner, the strong feelings that a woman body
creates to the viewer. At the same time the ambiguity,
necessary to burn onto the viewers memory, is omnipresent.
What does it take to become an angel?
Rafael knows that nothing needs to be said. It takes no words,
it takes no projects or conceptual series of pictures. It takes
just one picture! And it takes to feel and recognise the
moment when this picture appears. That is all. And that is
huge.
I am sure that when Rafael visualised his photograph he had
the same revelation: Our (photographic) existence is not
fragmentary but cumulative. Everything rushes in a tiny frame..
The visual trail when we finally release the shutter is:
sensibility, emotion, impulse, awareness.
Then it becomes absence. Until we meet again with the
framed "reality". Which, as someone said, is never the one we
have imagined. It is either worse or better.
Let's embrace here a moment of a better reality, of a hopeful
humanity.
STREET CORE PHOTOGRAPHY 2021
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