Photography Credits:
Photographer: Sobolev Sergei
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This showcase, “Loneliness,” is a masterclass in mood and negative space. Sobolev evokes a feeling of profound introspection not with overt sadness, but with stillness. A body is framed by the sterile emptiness of a stark room, or lost within the expanse of a forgotten landscape, its presence becoming both vulnerable and monumental. The play of light and shadow, a recurring motif in the series, carves out the contours of a private, interior world, suggesting a reality known only to the subject. The work invites the viewer not to pity, but to empathize—to recognize the universal experience of feeling desolate even when surrounded by others. Here, the absence of connection becomes a form of connection itself, a shared understanding etched into every frame.
