The work of Misha Gordin is not about erotica or sexual expression in the usual way. It’s much more about using the human body to communicate the artists ideas and feelings. It shows the naked human body in all it’s vulnerability.
Over the years Misha Gordin has developed a strong personal style that is both a result of his traditional image manipulation in a classical darkroom and the intriguing development of his own set of icons. The naked bold male, the pregnant woman, the crowds and the surreal landscapes. With his theme’s he gives us an inner view of the soul. He makes the invisible visible. And just like the dream images of the original surrealists the images are showing us impossible worlds in a very real manner.
His work encourages us to reflect, to think and to feel. And the way we do this is not only dictated by the image, but even more by reflecting to it trough our own experiences and feelings.
The Artists statement:
Do I point my camera outwards to the existing world or turn it inward towards my soul. Am I taking photographs of existing reality, or creating my own world, so real but non existent. Results from this two opposite approaches are notably different and, in my opinion, conceptual photography is a higher form of artistic expression that places photography on the level of painting, poetry, music and sculpture. It employs the special talent of intuitive vision. By translating the personal concepts into the language of photography, it reflects the possible answers to major questions of being: birth, death and life. Creating an idea and transforming it into reality is an essential process of conceptual photography.
