"Night scene" is  a serie of photos depicting night life of Bangkok where I spent two years.

Night scene

As a personal way of dealing with isolation, I made this project that was inspired by our present situation of world curfew. I am visual artist, mainly focused on art and street photography, I also like to experiment with ideas and techniques, always looking for new way to convey my vision. During quarantine downtime I accidently decided to go to Google Street View, blindly dropped in a random city and literally just started going down every street and making screenshots, submerged myself into this unusual process and fascinated by the beauty I could found in virtual cities. I felt more freedom as I would walking around the city, as I could snap people that look straight away in “lenses” in inconspicuous way. The presence of the whole world in the internet is insane as a fact, the way it represented is even more bizarre, everything is frozen that gives a feeling of sort of museum, virtual exhibition of life, where life is a performance and people with blurred faces are archetype
I caught many unsuspecting subjects- empty streets, picturesque landscapes, occasional people interactions, ghost towns, abandoned houses in the middle of nowhere, animals alienated-looking, broken cars, fires, spectacular intersection of events. In this project I just want to convey the atmosphere of mystery of normality, framing all this in compositions. It’s brought me closer to the world, cities and countries I would never ever visit before. Google Street View was created for functional reasons, it is neutral observational machine, a tool for practical human needs which artist can use as a brush, giving it a second life just by framing certain scenes into compositions and creating sort of conceptual paintings.


Virtual travelling

In this project  my interest was to explore banal suburban landscapes that may not be noticed by the casual observer. The locations may even be viewed as ugly or plain at first glance. As painterly abstractions I am using shapes, line and shadow is a meditation on environment. My images emphasize the poetry of banal and look towards narratives of the unusual but with elements of the everyday. 


Fragments

Colour is a form of non-verbal communication and 'Red' can represent a range of emotions from anger to action to determination to ambition or to PASSION. This colour attracts the most attention and is associated with seduction, sexuality, eroticism and immortality, possibly because of its close connection with passion and with danger.
Red also represents a boost in our physical energy levels, it increases our heart rate and blood pressure and helps in increasing adrenaline in our body. And that’s just the correct ingredients for some great passion.
The photos were made with Olympus Pen Epl-7, Pentax K-1000 and Canon 5d

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Kira Gyngazova