Series description
Like the retinue plays the king, the context plays the meaning. The context is a breeding ground for events; it may seem static, but it is never a passive background. It is the context that determines our attitude to what is happening, the mood, the emotional constitution of the event, and even answers the basic question, whether something is happening or not. The power of context is rooted not in the visual representation as such, but in the ability to direct the memory and experience we already have along a specific path. Thus, by your behest, the viewer goes on an exciting journey on his own person. Of course, this will require more efforts than the straightforward perception of the ready-to-use imagery, but such an indirect immersion makes the process of the image exploration more intimate, soft and natural.
In the Contexts project, I combined photos that do not tell stories by themselves, but serve as the covers of your personal story-books. I hope that these pictures could be the ground for a good home library. I also believe that the geography of these images (spanning the area from the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to the Tien Shan mountains) will excite the viewer much less than the geography of his personal travels based on these images would excite me.
