Taking Pictures Interview with Serena Dzenis: Out of This World

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INTERVIEW

What draws you to the landscape as a subject?

My underlying belief is that everything is inextricably linked. As Carl Sagan once said: “we are all made of star stuff”. Rocks, mountains, oceans … it all comes from the materials that burst forth from stars a long time ago. It’s the same stuff that makes up you and me. We are part of the land, as it is part of us.

Many of your images have an otherworldly quality to them. Why do you choose this way of representing landscape?

I believe that there is fleeting beauty in every moment of the small amount of time that we actually have on Earth. It’s like when you dream; REM sleep accounts for only a small amount of time in our sleep cycles, yet a dream can feel like it is taking place over an extended period of time from hours to days. When I photograph the landscape, I want people to feel like they are in a separate world just as they are when they close their eyes and go to sleep. My photographs can seem like something from a dream, but that moment really did exist. So often, we are just too busy to become aware of it.

https://talking-pictures.net.au/2022/06/18/serena-dzenis-out-of-this-world/

Not many photos here, but some are quite interesting. More of who, where, why and inspirations.

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