This project explores the sequence between fear of criticism, oppression, silencing and ultimately the mental decline of the individual, through altered portraits, where nakedness is a means of expressing the raw truth. The images stare at the impossible and the decay of modern human.
The process of printing films in an analogous way, attempts to retrieve memories, images and techniques, which come into contradiction with the modern world of digitization of reality and the human subsistence. Approaching traditional printing techniques, handmade Japanese Washi paper was used, which was smeared with light-sensitive emulsion in the darkroom, with the aim of highlighting the qualities that light reveals.
This research gave me the opportunity to bring back techniques that refer to the past of photographic capture, while they are still carriers of a contemporary reflection on the nature of the document as an expressive element.