Stairway


  • Photographer
    Anton Gorbachev
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Photoplay
  • Date of Photograph
    2011
  • Technical Info
    Rolleiflex 6*6, FUJIFILM

Stairway The island of San Michele, located in the lagoon close to Venice, has been the city's cemetery (cimitero) since the early nineteenth century. This place seems very special to me, so I visited it a few times. Once I found myself in the labyrinth of white columbarium walls and started to study them carefully. Later I noticed that sometimes people who came to their relatives to pay their respects or to communicate with them were using a transportable staircase to reach the upper rows of the columbarium wall. After this, the staircase as a sign got a new significance to me. In the project presented here I was trying to capture the feeling of silence and stillness. Words, established rules could hardly have any meaning there.

Story

Stairway

The island of San Michele, located in the lagoon close to Venice, has been the city's cemetery (cimitero) since the early nineteenth century. This place seems very special to me, so I visited it a few times. Once I found myself in the labyrinth of white columbarium walls and started to study them carefully. Later I noticed that sometimes people who came to their relatives to pay their respects or to communicate with them were using a transportable staircase to reach the upper rows of the columbarium wall. After this, the staircase as a sign got a new significance to me. In the project presented here I was trying to capture the feeling of silence and stillness. Words, established rules could hardly have any meaning there.

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