Through Introspection
Shervine Nafissi
This series of photographs is the result of a complete reconsideration of myself. An internal quest started four years ago, which led me to become a photographer. Then I had an inner quest to know what kind of photographer I was. Then, one day, I understood what I wanted to transmit. What is going on deep inside me, in my guts? These photos are a sweet mix of rough and soft. Sweet and trash. A contrast of black and white, which shows the two states in which I find myself. These photos tend to show sometimes the brutality of our life, through the tears, the dirt that we are put in our paths, but also moments of sweetness and poetry through a ray of sunshine, a light that springs from nowhere or, again, the plant in the middle of a concrete landscape. This duality inhabits the world; it lives in me. The contrast between two atmospheres, two feelings that oppose each other without nuance.
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