SHARP IDEAS #2

THE DANCE: LANGUAGES OF LIGHT AND TIME

On the street, the image-maker searches for that moment where you can see the sharpness of time. They lie in wait, foresee, make impulsive interventions, or establish distance through an anthropological gaze. In this dance, authentic life meets photographic agency. At the same time, light plays on the surface, connecting a technical medium to the source of life itself. The image maker uses this natural force to illuminate form, action, and space. In doing so, they offer languages of light and time as pathways of transcendental exchange between the image-maker, the viewer, and our essential shared meaning-making facilities. But does the "everyday" appear naturally? Or is life always a prop in “constructing” a scene? Can we know the difference?


PHOTOGRAPHERS

Alicja Brodowicz / Tonatiuh Cabello / Caspar Claasen / Sergi Escribano / Marco Giusfredi / Asli Gonen / Todd Gross / Tim Hale / Zisis Kardianos / Lesya Kim / Peter Kool / Łukasz Korulczyk / Charalampos Kydonakis / Phillip Kalantzis Cope / Linda Maclean / Bill McIntyre / Gustavo Minas / Suresh Naganathan / Monserrat Orallo / Artem Pankov / Andrea Ratto / Jodi Rogers / Koushik Sinha Roy / Jack Simon / Valeria Tofanelli / Lukas Vasilikos / Alice Christine Walker /Wong Wei-him