Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Erwin Olaf

I saw a few of the photos from Erwin Olaf's series The Keyhole at Paris Photo Los Angeles.  I love the composition, color palate, background patterns, and body language of the subjects.  In person, the images are crisp, arresting and evocative.  According to Le Journal de la Photographie:
It is through the keyhole that Dutch artist presents this latest work on the theme of shame, inviting the viewer to become a voyeur. 
The subjects in Olaf’s ten portraits strike postures of humility and remorse—perhaps the result of private humiliation suffered on the other side of the lock. They refer to age-old fantasies, evoking in each of us the passing of our lives and the inevitable reckoning of one’s own fragility.






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