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Nature - NOMINEE: Gleb Simonov
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The key properties that I focus on are small movements, silence, voluntary immobility, inanimate observation, pointing. It's an attempt to create a proposition, in which the barely visible harmonies of the outside are suggested to be the driving qualities through which the meaningfulness of the world can be asserted to us. In other words, it's the wavering of a branch, the thin air, the tint of the rocks, that say that the life is worth living.
The following project was shot as a tribute to a poem by A. R. Ammons — "Corsons Inlet". In the poem, Ammons discusses a transition between two modes of attention — how the speaker, while on a short coastline walk, is liberated from the world of concepts and suppositions into a world of pure vision: "hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight". As the walk ends, he realizes it does not leave him with anything he can say he has — and he comes to embrace it as such.
About author:
Gleb Simonov is a poet and photographer, born in Russia in 1986 and currently based in New York.
He is an author of two books of poems: “Выбранной ветки”, published by ARGO-RISK in 2017, and “Glossary for a Game in Hell”, a hand-printed book made in collaboration with artist Vika Adutova. His literary work has been long-listed at the international Debut Prize (2010, 2012) and appeared in many Russian poetry magazines, such as Воздух, Лиterraтура, Polutona, and others.
In photography, Gleb works primarily with non-urban landscapes. His work has been featured in “Observations in the Ordinary” collection by Subjectively Objective, and many photography magazines, such as Float, PHROOM, Phases, Analog magazine, and others.
Additionally, Gleb is the founder and curator of the Knizhnica archive, an online library of late Soviet samizdat books.
The following project was shot as a tribute to a poem by A. R. Ammons — "Corsons Inlet". In the poem, Ammons discusses a transition between two modes of attention — how the speaker, while on a short coastline walk, is liberated from the world of concepts and suppositions into a world of pure vision: "hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight". As the walk ends, he realizes it does not leave him with anything he can say he has — and he comes to embrace it as such.
About author:
Gleb Simonov is a poet and photographer, born in Russia in 1986 and currently based in New York.
He is an author of two books of poems: “Выбранной ветки”, published by ARGO-RISK in 2017, and “Glossary for a Game in Hell”, a hand-printed book made in collaboration with artist Vika Adutova. His literary work has been long-listed at the international Debut Prize (2010, 2012) and appeared in many Russian poetry magazines, such as Воздух, Лиterraтура, Polutona, and others.
In photography, Gleb works primarily with non-urban landscapes. His work has been featured in “Observations in the Ordinary” collection by Subjectively Objective, and many photography magazines, such as Float, PHROOM, Phases, Analog magazine, and others.
Additionally, Gleb is the founder and curator of the Knizhnica archive, an online library of late Soviet samizdat books.