in the ocean
‘Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.’
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Elena Chernyshova aka Елена чернышова (Russian, b. 1981, Moscow, USSR, based France) - Days Of Night, Nights Of Day project, 2012-2013. Days of Night, Nights of Day is about the daily life of the inhabitants of Norilsk, a mining city northernmost of the polar circle with a population of more than 170,000. The city, its mines and metallurgical factories were constructed by prisoners of the Gulag. With 60% of the present population involved in the industrial process, this project aims to investigate human adaptation to extreme climate, ecological disaster and isolation. Photography
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