Emotional Photography
The knowledge about Beauty and Ethics agglomerated through centuries, shows that the initial relation between these two values has collapsed. There is no doubt that the concept of Beauty and Ethics has been devalued. Being separated, each of them began expressing profound ambiguity. The question is – where is the reason?
We live in times in which the meaning of philosophizing makes its way towards something what is hidden deep in thoughts and art. Modern philosophy together with Kant gave Beauty a new quality, saying that Beauty is something commonly liked by the general public and is characterized by a disinterested pleasure. Artists’ individual protests against academic art, were adopted by mass art, which I think was the main reason for crossing the limits mapping the traditional area of creativity out.
My emotional photography is a tribute towards harmony and tradition, which more and more often requires care to survive in our times. Beauty appears in harmony with its all components, and thus in nature, placing the receiver in the face of reality. Reality who can not be explained or justified in any other way than through contemplation.
My photography becomes an attempt to explain and understand the world.
The world of femininity and sensuality, truth and melancholy. Focusing on details, I try to extract from them what we miss the most, what escapes us every day, the Beauty we overlook.
I am trying to show Beauty in its natural, classical form, as an eternal value, deprived of immorality and cool indifference. In emotional photography Beauty is the infinite melancholy of pure aestheticism, the longing for a lost meaning.
It is a way to show things in their existential authenticity.
Many artists tap into different drastic means of expression, which are trying to distinguish their creative ideas, overcome the aesthetic and moral standards, or are trying to appall the audience, thereby attracting attention.
Freedom of art or the evidence of the imminent approach to the final end? I believe that in nature, beauty, ordinariness and ugliness, are often confused. An artist should be the gifted one with intuition to identify and separate pure beauty, attaining creative victory over nonexistene, ugliness and chaos.
''Emotional Photography is a dedication to my beloved husband. Life with him is an incredible, unceasing journey through a world of colours, canvases, passion and patterns of life. Tomas is my critic, but he is also my biggest fan''.
– Agata Mayer
