LESS#1

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Photography & Visual Art Zine issue #1

Concept/Design/Photography: K a r o l i n a K a r w a n All images in Less are the sole property of the photographer and featured authors.

Authors are listed on the back of the book.

less This photography Zine comes from the need to express things which cannot be verbalized easily. It comes from the love to visual languague thanks to which I can say things hidden deep inside.

It comes from the bottom of my heart.

Let

me

at

least

write

a

few

words

about

it.

Less #1 is an impressional series, far from intellectual message. Here, emotions and certain mood which I attempted to achieve predominate. The series seems like a chaotic thought process with a magical-melancholic tint. This process is inspired by alpha state of mind where certain alpha brainwave occur during light sleeping, daydreaming and meditation. Thousands of uncontrolled and free thoughts appear.

Apha state is the doorway to access subconscious mind.

It is typified by partial conscious awareness and partial subconscious predominance accruing at the same time. Less is an attempt of visualizing my A l p h a S t a t e Photographs here are like thoughts, moving and leaving an emotional scent. All the images are connected by a symbolic ambient, reflecting specific mood. Therefore Less, it’s a manifesto and a rebellion againts traditional photographic narration. It’s an escape from a specific subject, towards, a more intuitive creation.

Less is a statement.

Less is more.

Thanks to authors whose works I used in this publication.

It helped me to express the content.

Anna Atkins, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions,1843. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

Jakub SĹ‚omkowski, Das Grosse Projekt, polish painter.

Marta KĹ‚yszejko, Emptiness, polish painter.

Tomasz Ratter, Bubbles, polish photographer.

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