Light Masks
2017 - ongoing
Wet plate collodion, ambrotype, pen drawing, light projection, 18х13 cm
Light Masks attempts to overcome the depersonifying force of masks with artistic and photographic means. These masks are not intended to provoke atavistic reactions to the bogus superficial appearance and the unknown hidden under the shell, but to serve as personifications that liberate the individual. The passive participants in front of the camera enter the photographic reality with their creative intervention. They draw a quick sketch showing their light side, which is scanned and treated as photographic negative. Then, during the shooting of the portrait, it is projected on the face of the author. The wet plate collodion process with its impressively distinct material character is "infiltrated" with a digital projection.