Wednesday 4 July 2012

Russian Dreams




This was a project done from 2003-2005 by Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov who created their own 'private moon' which they took to different locations to shoot at night.
The pictures are extremely clear for low lighting so I assume they used a tripod to keep the picture from blurring and had a long shutter speed for more detail.
I like how they create a fantasy scene and the moon seems to be the main source of light, illuminating the picture. The photos they created look like screen captures of a story.

Tishkov's website showed this project along with the desciption:

'“Private Moon” is a visual poem, telling a story about a man who found the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life.
In the upper world, in the attic of his house, he saw the Moon which had fallen from the sky. At first she was hiding from the sun in a dark, damp tunnel and was constantly frightened by the passing trains. Then she came to the house of the man.
Wrapping the moon in a thick blanket, he gives her autumn apples and drinks tea with her. When she finally recovers he puts her on a boat and carries her across a dark river to a high bank, where moon pine-trees grow.
He descends to the lower world wearing the clothes of his deceased father and then returns, illuminating the way with his private moon.
Transcending the borders between worlds via narrow bridges, sinking into sleep, taking care of the heavenly body, man turns into a mythological being living in the real world like in a fantastic fairy-tale.'
Leonid Tishkov

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