Alexandra Catiere: Behind the Glass
Monday, October 22, 2007
Untitled, 2005 (from “Behind the Glass”)
© Alexandra Catiere
Alexandra Catiere writes about her series Behind the Glass,
I took these pictures in Minsk, the city where I was raised. It was the month of January. There was mud with wet snow on the streets. I was at the bus stop starting with fascination at the faces glued to the windows in the publication transportation.
Untitled, 2005 (from “Behind the Glass”)
© Alexandra Catiere
They looked at me in turn, or not. The glass separated us, thus creating an illusion of disengagement.
Untitled, 2005 (from “Behind the Glass”)
© Alexandra Catiere
The texture of the window, itself with its history, framed the face, taking it out from the real life context.
Untitled, 2005 (from “Behind the Glass”)
© Alexandra Catiere
The stillness and detachment of the human look together with the surface of the glass was already an enigmatic picture to me, which I then captured on film.
Untitled, 2005 (from “Behind the Glass”)
© Alexandra Catiere
See more of Alexandra’s beautiful work on her website. And if you like this concept, see Andrew Miksys‘ lovely series titled Buses.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Thanks for this link…these black and whites really are something, they could be from any time over the last 100 years. On the buses them, also remember one of my favourites, Tom Wood’s All Zones Off Peak, which Andrew’s work owes a lot too I think.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Very nice pictures. It has that mood of despair when winter comes to the city but also it has hope of coming spring… And each portraiture is separate story…