Description
The small white screen serving as a backdrop ceases to be a prop and becomes a kind of painting in itself. The white "Malevich square" highlights and emphasizes the tormented grimace of old age in complex facial expressions. Moving from photo to photo, the square takes on the characteristics of a manuscript. The screen is held by people, looking (in their mind - out of frame) into the lens. The goodness emanating from the "out of frame" characters, who don't care about pose, very sincere and human, gives the photographs a new meaning. It is not the helpless old men with their poverty and coffins, but precisely those standing by and helping them in a concrete, tangible way, that constitute the power of the impact of this series of photographs. Human misery - a problem as old as photojournalism itself, but a look at it - completely new - from Tatiana Pavlova's article, "Photos for passport" and "Lilies" by Alexander Chekhnev
