March 02nd, 2020

Magali Kermaïdic

Ramtin Firouzian

George Koutsouvelis

Photo of the month Insta: February 2020

Yet another difficult choice for this month’s winner.

Three B&W images, three worlds, one poem!

We tend to compare photography to poetry due to the different personal interpretations of the same picture.

But the comparison ends here. Because there is only one piece of poetry in photography. The ode to life. The lament to time past.

In Magali’s composition (photograph of the month) all is said frontally, centrally, with a powerful metaphor of our solitary walk through light and darkness as they alternate constantly in our cities; our metropoles, made by gods for the gods but not for the people.

Ramtin’s “window view” is a masterpiece of geometry and “trompe l’oeil”. And since in photography, as in any form of art, we carry with us all the cultural experiences of our lives, the undersigned sees here Bresson’s cyclist on a roof and Faust waiting for his (own) imminent fall.

George’s shadows are what they honestly declare to be. Unknown figures in an unknown choreography of an unknown future.

​A photograph can be a slam to the viewer’s face!
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​Photo of the month (by Magali Kermaïdic @magali.kermaidic) and runners-up (by Ramtin Farouzian @ramtin.firouzian and George Koutsouvelis @yiorgoskouts) February 2020, Instagram account of BULB (curated by Marius Petrescu, Panagiotis Kalkavouras, Ruxandra Maria, Louloudia Gredi and the undersigned Michail).