What we know about others is first of all what we see, what our eye and the analysis of appearances translates about a person. There is no direct access to someone’s true personality that doesn’t pass by appearances. And so the photographic portrait, the ability to express a person through his image, is nothing more than an interpretation that passes through an artistic intuition. A filter of a filter that must be able to provoke (attraction, curiosity, tension, discomfort …). It is the ability to guess the appearance.
This is perhaps what makes the shots of photographer Steven Gindler aka Cvatik so attractive. His ability to build a tension between his eye, the subject and the viewer. Not just description, but awareness of the disturbance that one wants to impress in the image, the ability to expand it and build it artfully.
His images are charged, nostalgic, decadent, sensual, disturbing. Almost always simultaneously.
“Photography, in every sense, is literally my life. I try and take my camera with me everywhere, and create a new adventure for myself everyday.”
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All photography copyright Steven Gindler
