Disconnecting Connection (4) - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

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.