Looking away from what I’ve shot so far, I decided to take a look at some of the work of other photographers whose work I follow and record what thoughts, responses, and possible influences their work brings to me. I decided to start by looking at the account of Sotiris Lamprou whose work on their Instagram account @sotblindlamp, depicts a variety of subjects and forms, all presented in a harsh, mysterious, unnerving, and melancholic fashion. The strong black and white shots, often with visual distortion or other obscuring features such as mist/fog, motion blur, intense contrast, deep shadow, and/or softened clarity most definitely create powerful images that are evocative of such feelings as loss, nostalgia, journey/passages, fear, dissociation, absence, and discomfort.
I find their work to be extremely effective at conveying sensations and feelings through nondescript means, by which I mean that they aren’t making work that’s very ‘on the nose' as the expression goes, some of the subjects, scenes, and landscapes captured by them don’t explicitly connote or depict typical things attributed to the feelings that the images give off. Their style and production of the images is one that I find very inspiring given my own attraction to the bleak, downward inflection of emotion when creating images.
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