David Meskhi - from When Earth Seems to Be Light series Title Unknown 2008.
Meskhi’s website presents his as a photographer preoccupied with athletes, skateboarders and soldiers. Shooting predominately flat black and white, his inclusion of occasional, irreverent bursts of color do nex to nothing to lessen the work’s dour murk.
By contrast— and as suggested by the title— his When Earth Seems to Be Light series is full or warmth and whimsy.
It’s maybe not good but it is undeniably more accessible than the other work showcased.
It is incomprehensible that this image does not appear on the site. Instead, another image of the same young woman—Anna, apparently is featured. The second image isn’t bad; it’s casual immediacy seems forced, as if it seeking to neuter the sentimental nostalgia.
And I see how someone could read the image I posted could as self-indulgently sentimental. It is a little; However, that’s not always a bad thing—arrive for the nostalgia, stay for the Art.
