Second glance

From a review of a project written by Aleksandar Kelić : Lazar, treats the portrait in a completely different way and in a different social context. His subjects are visual artists and photographers, whom he photographs using an analog camera, in an environment of their choice, which should reflect their life and / or creative approach. After shooting a portrait, he shoots the same scene without the subject in the frame (records the absence). He glues the printed photographs one over the other, and then tears the upper photograph, thus revealing a part of the lower one, so that each of his works is finally realized as an analogue collage, ie, more as a fine art object than as a photographic image. With specific intervention in the works (removing the part of the portrait with the eyes, part of the nose and forehead), he deprives the viewer of the “first zone of interest” - the portrayed person's eyes, but additionally reveals the environment in which the portrayed is located, directing them to other elements of the image and other ways of experiencing and understanding the portrait. The absence of a look in the eyes of the portrayed causes discomfort to the viewer at first, because