Design information
Design name
Collapsed Time
Primary function
documentary/cultural photography, street photography (Indoor)
Location of the project
France / Paris
Year of design
2018
Category
Photography and creating photo collages
Design team
Hamrah Ghashghaei
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Description
The idea for this photograph emerged unexpectedly during my visit to the Louvre.As I turned away from the dense crowd surrounding the Mona Lisa.I noticed a striking overlap:the visitors in front of me seemed to merge visually with the historical painting behind them,whose tightly clustered figures echoed the same intensity of gathering from another era.For a moment,it felt as though time had collapsed.the modern crowd,with their phones and hurried expressions,appeared to spill into the canvas,while the painted characters seemed to step outward into the present.the boundary between reality and representation slipped into uncertainty.converting the image to black and white intensified this collapse of time by removing colour cues that anchor each era.what remained was a single continum of human behaviour people gathering,observing and seeking meaning in art.the photograph invites the viewer to question where history ends,where the present begins and whether such a boundary truly exists.
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