My approach is based on the search for a moment of spontaneity, uncertainty, a moment of connection with a look, communication without words, a reaction without prior agreement ...
Only Sand And Sea
This series is about Desert and Sea. Even from the air approaching African land, it’s clear there is vastness of sand and sea. That feeling is much more obvious when you are landed and start to walk around. Those photographs are fruits of my personal curiosity to understand two main elements of the northern African land, Sahara desert sand and Red Sea.
If you turn around full circle, you could see great dominance of two beautiful colours and multitude shades of both colours. Even islands are completely sandy with very rare plants. It’s hot but the air is dry, reason to be tolerable. Due to extremely hot air especially close to the ground, lines and forms are flickering, making faraway subjects looks like in aquarelle paints. I’m wondering if those scenes are true or Fata Morgana?
You can feel noticeable absence of humans, but there are traces of their activities. Their homes and living spaces are very simple in forms and way of building. Some of them have very modest way of living deeply in the desert, far away from civilization. There are desert settlements which are under certain rules open to visitors. That’s one of them deeply in the Sahara desert. Artefacts of modern living could be found, means their lives are changing. Nevertheless life there is hard and challenging. Even if Bedouins live deeply in the desert, they are religious. Small mosque at the border of settlement was built to satisfy that kind of need.
There are building attempts by the sea, abandoned probably for better moment to be finished. Man with the white hat is here to watch and guard building site. But he knows I’m not here to make any kind of problem. Communication is impossible, except smiles and body language. Possibility to be framed is silently confirmed. There is a cottage, with the chair in the shadow, for another guard position on the top of the desert dune. Nearby village panorama is flickering like aquarelle artwork due to hot air. Next moment my new friend walked around to check.
Only sand, man and sea in perfect panoramic frame.
On the other side of the view there is Red Sea bluish horizon. Every frame attracts me to minimalism, just few simple lines and colour layers. And blue from turquoise to deep sea blue. Strange object, certain platform, probably once it was the beacon, now rest place for few birds, attract my attention. Soon I focus another strange object. What was idea of creator, with that steel wire and red ball on the top?
