Photo exhibition of Alexander Naanu "MIRROR" Automatic translate

Reflection and photography are similar - pictures created by both light and gaze. But, there is at least one fundamental difference. Photography exists, reflection does not. It is not easy to believe that after everyone is out, nothing will remain in the mirror. After all, the camera, even without a person, will still take a picture in which everything that falls into the frame is reflected.

“Photography is a reflection of reality around me. Home, city, events, fashion, theater, people. It doesn’t matter to me what exactly happens. There is no production here. But I can’t help but influence what surrounds me. Whether by mere presence, or consciously "dancing" to the rhythm of what is happening. There are no “invented” phrases in this dialogue. I look and react with a lens to what is happening around me. Photography is a reflection of me in my reality. "

The works of Alexander Naanu fully express his stated approach. Yes - this is his look, his dance. Despite the apparent simplicity of the plot, each photograph evokes many literary, cultural, stylistic and even mathematical allusions. Hence - the pleasure that you experience at the moment when you recognized the language, understood the structure of the frame, and built your perception of the picture. And the apparent disregard for the "canon" is a bold author’s game, which is being played by Alexander, creating new rules. And they are quite suitable for not quite familiar harmony.

It is worth trying to perceive Alexander’s photographs, not as pictures created for some purpose, but as reflections. So the viewer turns into an unusual mirror. In it, photographs, often looking like scraps of dreams, will create something. Maybe important, maybe trivial. But something that will remain, even when everyone is out of frame.