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5
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Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 47.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.1 D in
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147 Views
5
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Photography: Color, Digital, Paper, Photo on Paper. Limited Edition of 5. Each print is hand-signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Printed on Archival Giclee paper. Image size: 1200 mm (W) x 800 mm (H) Once upon a time in those clothes lit by the blueish light used to be a person. According to various studies, some kids spend an average of 7.5 hours in front of screens each day. That’s right –7.5 hours. That’s about as much time most adults spend at work each day. Teens now spend up to nine hours a day on social platforms alone. Astonishingly, the average person will spend nearly two hours (approximately 116 minutes) on social media everyday, which translates toa total of 5 years and 4 months spent over a lifetime. Currently, total time spent on social media beats time spent eating and drinking, socializing, and grooming. The realization of how much the average person actually spends on social media comes into sharper focus when comparing the figure (five years and four months) to the one year and three months we will spend over a lifetime socializing with friends and family in real life. We are disappearing, cease to exist, perish. We can’t imagine our lives without the blue screens. We are bombarded with news, updates and statuses. We’ve got thousands of friends and yet we are alone. We are semi-transparent, lost in the blue light of useless information and a fake feeling of belonging. The main goal of this project is to illustrate how we keep disconnecting from the reality around us at any given moment and becoming engaged in something that is perhaps real but not that important and relevant right now; How we just by the nature of habit choose more often to look at the screen instead of looking around, to text someone instead of talking to a person sitting in front of us; How our mind becomes global in the sense that we can engage in a conversation with people we barely know and at the same time ignore someone very close and real.
Original Created:
2018
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Photography:
Color on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:
5
Size:
47.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Latvia.
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Al Lapkovsky
Latvia
Al Lapkovsky is an award-winning photographer and creative retoucher who is currently based in Riga, Latvia. He works in most diverse areas, blurring the boundaries between commercial imagery and fine art photography. In his stylistic approach, Al combines the eye for reality as well as his intuitive feeling for situations and people, bringing a unique vision to his images. His portfolio embraces narrative qualities which show cutting-edge authenticity, boundless instinct for moods and preference for the dramatic gesture - invaluable qualities which have contributed to him gathering a multitude of international awards including first place in 2018 International Photography Awards (IPA) / Professional Advertising / Self-Promotion category and first place in Professional Portfolio category in Tokyo International Foto Awards. Having begun his photographic journey in London in 2003, Lapkovsky has always been attuned to the endless potential of photographic experimentation, challenging conventional notions of photography and providing the viewer with an opportunity to visualise subconscious and let loose the power of imagination. Born in Daugavpils, Latvia in 1981, Lapkovksy has managed to create photographic imagery that possesses keen transcendental quality imperceptibly switching back and forth from reality to absurdity. Much of the photographer’s work is characterised by the presence of whimsical, nearly-abstract cities and solitary, often distorted or decapitated human figures in dark palette, depicted amid mystical, quaint interiors. This imagery is a projection of the photographer’s own awareness of the impact of the global socio-environmental changes happening today. “What is going on in the world is difficult not to get dragged in, at least in one’s art. I cannot ignore it”, Lapkovsky says, revealing own artistic sensitivity. “For instance, the series ‘London Ghost City’ was shot as some kind of warning to what could happen to London with such accumulating pace of global warming”, the photographer explains. In his new series ‘Disconnecting Connection’ Lapkovsky explores the societal changes rapidly happening in the last decade in the wake of the social media appearance.
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