What Sort Of Life Is This

Albert Elm
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What sort of life is this is a photographic essay that I have been working on since 2009. It’s about everyday life in a world that I am used to, but do not necessarily understand. I’m working from intuition and the urge to examine my everyday life and surroundings. With my photographs I try to describe what particular places or situations are like, at a particular time. How it looked and most important, what it felt like.

As an attempt to understand the world around me, I make images of what I think contemporary life looks like. What it [life] could be about and what it feels like. I think some of us tend to find our familiar surroundings trivial, when we get used to them. Therefore I try to create an atmosphere that adds to everyday life by showing it in a different way.

My aim is to tell stories about common realities. Depicting real people, real places and real moments but through my frames, tempos and directions. It’s my life and personal universe, but it’s meant to get the viewers involved, and let them create their own stories in mine. I want my images to suggest rather than explain. They are unspoken questions left for the individual to think of, in his/her own personal way.

My story is supposed to be as open as possible in order to give the reader space to take part in the story. Based on their own memories and personal ways of interpret things. I try guide people with a point of view that hopefully triggers curiosity in their own life…

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