NEMANJA ZDRAVKOVIC

TO THE UNKNOWN MAN

To The Unknown Man is a project devoted to imperfect human being with heavy weight on his back who habits this world. I am picturing that weight as integral and inseparable part of each person’s soul. 

While the man carries his heavy luggage, he searches for himself. He feels the agony and constantly looking for the answer who he really is and where he will finish by the end. 

This man, with his imperfection, struggles and tries to survive in the difficulty of his existence. Therefore, he is facing his personal duality challenged by the world’s expectations. I am interested in visually presenting this duality in my work as a contrast and contradiction. Beside his personal internal struggle this man is in eternal fight with compelled inherited habits and rules. I am emphasizing those elements as a repetition on my photography. 
Moved by the simplicity and ordinariness, I am giving the attention and importance to the unnoticed details. I am interested in portraying the human imperfection and weight in transience. 

While walking on street I observe people and hunt for little scenes that interest me. I search for the moments which individual(s) create(s) in the juxtaposition with each other and their environment. Inspired by people’s body expressions and moreover their energy, through my lens I am connecting, communicating and empathizing with all of them. I challenge myself to step closer and zoom into the special details that I want to perpetuate. 

The people that I photograph are usually positioned from behind with hidden face. It is important to mention that this man is not any specific individual, but it is every man, the Unknown Man.

WALKING AROUND

As a person who deals with my own internal being and desires to know who I truly am, photography is a medium through which I encounter myself, question my perceptions, and try to understand what matters to me.

Walking Around is a project that symbolizes my personal journey through life. It explores how we find our way, even when we cannot control where we begin. 

We are free, but everywhere in chains—running up against our own internal limits at all turns. Walking through life, as free as possible, we carry a sub-conscious and a variety of inherited impulses which appear to us as duality. This duality follows us, tending to be expressed as internal conflict.

The photos in this project have geometric harmony, but with one object or aspect in the picture that creates an imbalance. This moment moves attention and generates questions. Walking Around deals with human life as a quest to understand and accept who we really are and the mosaic that lies beneath our individuality.