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BIFA 2023

Rest and Upheaval

  • Photographer
    Kevin Bacher

To be human is to live in contrast and contradiction. We strive for lives that are calm and restful; yet the world is filled with chaos and turmoil. Nothing conveys this clash better than the contrast between the soft, vulnerable curves of a human body and the rough, unforgiving textures of our rocky planet. Yet even the harshness of nature can, in time, through the action of millions of waves and trillions of grains of sand, smooth sharp edges into polished stone. Nature both threatens and sustains us, and we find balance in the center of the storm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said "the soul in man is not an organ, but a light... a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all." My task as a photographer is to capture light in the form of digital pixels; but my task as an artist is to capture a glimpse of the soul shining through. I focus on figure photography, mostly in nature, with themes of reconnecting with that part of us that is natural and wild. My work also strives to represent diversity in all forms, and to represent the beautiful diversity of human sensual experience.