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Image'n'Nation: A disposable life

Use your imagination to interpret Russsian nation's soul, looking at these pics. Today in Image'n'Nation: A Disposable Life by photographer Stanislav Sitnikov
By Vladimir Stakheev, RBTH
Russian photographer Stanislav Sitnikov presents the project dedicated to the humdrum of people’s daily lives in the big city.
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Stanislav Sitnikov

Russian photographer Stanislav Sitnikov presents the project dedicated to the humdrum of people’s daily lives in the big city.
"The idea for this series is not so much in the visual contact, the viewer’s ‘view’ of concrete items, as it is in a person’s conscious contact with him or herself".

Stanislav Sitnikov

"The idea for this series is not so much in the visual contact, the viewer’s ‘view’ of concrete items, as it is in a person’s conscious contact with him or herself".
"The black background is part of the overall concept. Objects taken from city streets and placed in a black empty space attain a different aesthetic, different meanings, new artistic content".

Stanislav Sitnikov

"The black background is part of the overall concept. Objects taken from city streets and placed in a black empty space attain a different aesthetic, different meanings, new artistic content".
"Used plastic, paper, and polyethylene are like portraits of a city, daily consumption, and a fast-paced, disposable, almost meaningless life"...

Stanislav Sitnikov

"Used plastic, paper, and polyethylene are like portraits of a city, daily consumption, and a fast-paced, disposable, almost meaningless life"...
"Every day is thrown away like disposable plastic. Days disappear into the void like city trash into a dumpster".

Stanislav Sitnikov

"Every day is thrown away like disposable plastic. Days disappear into the void like city trash into a dumpster".
"We rarely look at things attentively, we rarely concentrate our gaze or thoughts on something, including ourselves, because we’re in a rush or we’re too busy".

Stanislav Sitnikov

"We rarely look at things attentively, we rarely concentrate our gaze or thoughts on something, including ourselves, because we’re in a rush or we’re too busy".
"The works presented here are an attempt to hold the viewer’s gaze; an offer to look more attentively at everyday life for a day, a week, or a year; a suggestion to read the “ingredients” of our daily life more carefully…what is it composed of? Is it full of some meaning?"

Stanislav Sitnikov

"The works presented here are an attempt to hold the viewer’s gaze; an offer to look more attentively at everyday life for a day, a week, or a year; a suggestion to read the “ingredients” of our daily life more carefully…what is it composed of? Is it full of some meaning?"
"The photographs displayed here are part of a series. They were taken in Paris, Rome, Prague, and Moscow at different times between 2012 and 2014".

Stanislav Sitnikov

"The photographs displayed here are part of a series. They were taken in Paris, Rome, Prague, and Moscow at different times between 2012 and 2014".
June 8, 2014
Tags: Art, photography

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