Prospekt Photograhers will take part to the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival with the exhibition “Buried Reflections In The Silo” featuring the photographs by Igor Posner, Devin Yalkin, Samuele Pellecchia and Francesco Merlini.
Four intimacies blended into a collective reflection that aims at using the visual result of their photographic quest in order to deeply explore the process and the meaning of using photography to transform reality into a very personal account of existence that at the same time becomes voice of a collective memory.
The camera can act as magnifier becoming a cognitive filter for personal identities. This method of intimate discovery assigns new notions to human and inanimate subjects, placing it in a new mental and physical space, drastically close and at the same time unexpectedly distant.
These photographs taken in four continents suggest that physical and emotional gaps can be blurred by the gaze of those ones who look for themselves in the eyes of the strangers encountered during their path.
In a time where the boundaries between the documentary narration of stories and the personal representation are more and more subtle, what does it mean to be a diaristic photographer?
Obsessions, memories, recollections and fears, an huge stream of consciousness that shove the audience into a dark galaxy of images sprinkled with bright fragments of vicious emotions and charming honesty.
The exhibition, featuring more than 120 prints, will open on May 7th at the Tbilisi History Museum.
© Igor Posner
© Devin Yalkin
© Francesco Merlini
