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Don't Take it Personal An instruction leaflet This is the narrative of a social milieu that suffocates from its weariness and self-importance, while fancying itself in knowing superiority. This series of images portrays those who are often called "privileged" and sometimes "woke". Portraits of a social class that on the surface, has or could have everything. Educated but despite it all still ends up in misfortune. The photographs pose important questions of our time to those who are often uncomfortable confronting harsh reality. On the one hand they enjoy their privileges and on the other they envision themselves to be on the "right" side. After all, you demonstrate against climate change … you know how important healthcare for all is. The body of work criticizes at the painful point: those who are high up in the social hierarchy structure, well aware of the discriminations and inequitable distribution of resources that make these structures possible and promote them in the first place. Not to endanger their own positions of power, they, nevertheless, cling to these self-serving structures. The colorful, good-humored overload of images; the grotesque, abstruse and striking exaggerations that immediately captivate the eye, literally fling the burning questions of our politically fragile and norm-wobbly times at the viewer. Does money make you happy? What role does the body and its perception play in society? What does responsibility look like in these crises that we cause through our modern lifestyles? Is the individual ego always above the community? And perhaps at the crux of it, the most important, concrete question of all: How far does self-deception go, and who wants to finally look in the mirror?
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Katarzyna Battenfeld
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Nature Photography - Underwater
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Germany
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Maryna Kostiukevych
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People Photography - Conceptual
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Switzerland
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Luís Viegas Mendonça
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London Photography - Nudes
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Portugal
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Marcus Hausser
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Commercial Photography - Lifestyle
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Brazil