- Absurd Humanity -
“Absurd Humanity” is a photography series based on diseases and deformations of the human body. During my research I got extremely inspired by all kinds of diseases that affect the form of our body. Because I did so much research, I started looking differently at these scary and gross diseases. Instead of being scared of it or being uncomfortable watching at the images, I started seeing the beauty of it. I didn’t only researched the diseases itself, but I also read articles about how the people with these specifical illnesses feel about themselves and how their environment reacts on them. They are often bullied or banned to another village because they are the freaks of the town and nobody wants something to do with them. They can’t even find a job, even though they are perfectly able to work and may be excellent at their job. I felt so sorry for them and I tried to think of a way to present these diseases as something beautiful instead of something horrible or scary. First I printed out all of the diseases that i wanted to recreate into something beautiful. I sketched and sketched until I found a way to abstract the illness in a way that you could still see the resemblance and the main inspiration, but you didn’t immediately saw that it was based on something that looks so horrible to most of the people. Instead of portraying the illnesses as something terrible that you should be ashamed of, I portrayed these diseases as something beautiful, that you could be proud of. I didn’t want my models to hide in dark places, I presented them full frontal, in your face. My photographs are my graphic and abstract interpretation of these diseases. It’s very personal work, because it’s my reflection on a sensitive case for most of the people. I know that most of you don’t want to be confronted with these terrible illnesses, mostly because of fear,
but try to see the beauty that I saw and you will all be amazed.
