Urban Messiah
This photo is part of the Around the Corner series.
The entire series can be found in my gallery.
Happy New Year everyone…
Lidor
Extinction
This photo is part of the (relatively) new series: Erasure.
I invite you to browse the entire series in my gallery.
Spotlight, Coming Soon
One of my preferred Web-related activities is finding fellow photographers. The Internet is a the perfect place for finding great people with tons of talent.
I learn so much merely from watching the work of other artists. And when I come across a photo that touches me — a photo that makes something inside me move — I am thrilled.
When I designed the concept of Fragments, Reloaded I felt I had to save some place for introducing the work of colleagues I adore.
That is the idea behind the Spotlight section. Every month I will invite one artist to the Spotlight and let him present his/her work.
The first article in the Spotlight series is coming soon. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do…
Lidor Wyssocky
Welcome to Fragments, Reloaded
Years ago, right after I bought my first SLR camera, I was eager to find beautiful places and subjects to photograph. I immediately begun touring the classic locations — locations you can see on every postcard - trying to find just the right angle, the right light, and the composition to take yet another postcard-like photo.
It didn’t take long until I felt I ran out of locations. So I switched to cats. They were all so adorable, as if they were created to be photographed. But you can imagine how disappointed I was if by any chance I didn’t find a cat in one of my photo sessions. And when more and more photos looked like “just another cat”, I had to switch to something else. Flowers seemed like a good idea.
After less than a year, I ran out of locations, cats, flowers, and… ideas. I gradually stopped photographing.
A few years later, I opened a dusty album with what I once thought to be my best photos. I found them boring. I stared at them, and they made me feel nothing. They were just a bunch of mute old photos. One photo, however, did catch my eyes. It showed part of a vine - a branch with few leaves on a sunset background. I didn’t understand why I keep staring at it. It seemed so ordinary. But then I saw it.
There it was: a silhouette — a skinny figure holding flowers for his love. The minute I saw it, I knew I am going to start photographing again. I knew I am going to do it differently this time. I realized I didn’t need to look for beautiful subjects or scenery. I just had to open my eyes and look around me.
Since then I walk the streets with my camera looking for fragments of reality — fragments I use as raw material for telling stories. In my works I try to create a door to a world of infinite stories. Stories that exist only in the viewer’s mind.
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Welcome to Fragments, Reloaded. My name is Lidor Wyssocky, and you just happened to come across my humble photography blog.
Fragments, Reloaded is first and foremost my Photoblog (replacing my former photoblog). But with Fragments, Reloaded I decided not only to share my work, but also to share my experience and insights about Photography in general and Visual Story Telling in particular. Therefore a significant part of my new blog is dedicated to articles, tips, and a look behind the scene of my work. Every once in a while I will present the work of a Featured Artist. And, hopefully, that’s only the beginning.
I invite you not only to be a viewer and a reader, but also to take an active part in shaping Fragments, Reloaded. If you have any idea, comment, question, or just some kind words to share, please feel free to post a comment or contact me personally. I promise to respond.
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You are invited to join the ride. And remember: Stories are everywhere. Enjoy.
Lidor Wyssocky
In Search For Featured Artists
I am looking for visual artists who would like to have a selection of their work (and themselves) presented in a new section in Fragments, Reloaded dedicated to Featured Artists.
If you are interested, please contact me personally.
Urbanity, Part I: Antimatter
For more than two years, I’ve been wandering the streets of Tel-Aviv with a camera — trying to capture fragments of urban life and scenery. During one of my walks, I came by a flower.
It was a simple graffiti flower drawn on a wall as if it was placed on a street bench. The way this flower — a figment of someone’s imagination — was so naturally placed in the real world, drew me to a different world. A world in which matter and antimatter blend to create stories.
During the months that followed I collected more stories created on the boarder line of two parallel universes. Together, they form a bigger story. A story told by a city.
I am very proud and excited to present Urbanity, Part I: Antimatter.
“Antimatter” was on my mind for the past six months, since I saw that flower on the wall. Now, that all parts of the story are in place, I’m very excited to share it with you.
I hope you’ll enjoy the series. Please feel free to contact me and share your thoughts and feelings.
Untitled | New Series: Erasure
Marks painted on
words written on
words written on
walls used by
people who needed to say something
others refuse to hear
This photo is part of a new series called Erasure. You’re invited to see the entire series in my gallery.