THE POEMS

THE POEMS is an ongoing meta-series of single images (numbered or titled) and single videos. Eldagsen presents this work as site-specific installations, often using LIMBOS. Boris Eldagsen’s photographs utilise the external reality, to paint the inner reality of the unconscious and archetypical. Inaccessible to the rational mind, Eldagsen’s The Poems compel the viewer to resort to their own memories and feelings. Evidence becomes subjective. Without excessive materials or digital effects, he combines the techniques of street and staged photography to create images that sit between painting, film and theatre. There is difficulty defining the staged and unstaged in each image but this is necessary to question each viewer's perception of reality. Technique Eldagsen only works at night, with minimal equipment, an in-camera approach and without digital manipulation. Like a moth, he roams the streets searching for light, practicing what he has termed Inverse Street Photography: instead of exploring stories, a place or a person, he hijacks and transforms what he sees in front of his camera to become a symbol for the timeless workings of the mind. Eldagsen also stages images with models to create a portrait of the Collective Unconscious. To develop ideas and impulses for the shoot, he maps the overlapping areas of his and his model’s unconscious. Then he follows the dynamics of the shoot to move deeper down the rabbit hole. More info: https://www.eldagsen.com/tp/