Shell Time

Still lifes of improvised materials from home

Words by

Natalya Rasskazova

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

In self-isolation, I started to shoot still lifes of improvised materials from home. The series Shell Time became my way of working with photography during these limited circumstances.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

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The objects on the images lost their utility and gained new connections and meanings. The title of the project came up while I was shooting eggshells. Shell Time has the metaphor for hiding in our shell during the corona pandemic.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

Shell Time is about our world, which is momentarily very unstable. The process of creating absurd compositions from ordinary objects, has already become a routine for me, as well as the current reality, which until recently seemed to us insane and impossible.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time
© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time
Bio
Natalya Rasskazova is a Russian photographer. She was born in 1992 in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia. Now she lives in Moscow. In 2020 she graduated Fine Art School of Photography (Moscow, Russia). In her works, she explores the nature of everyday life and human behaviour in today's circumstances.

Shell Time

Still lifes of improvised materials from home

Words by

Natalya Rasskazova

Still lifes of improvised materials from home
© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

In self-isolation, I started to shoot still lifes of improvised materials from home. The series Shell Time became my way of working with photography during these limited circumstances.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

The objects on the images lost their utility and gained new connections and meanings. The title of the project came up while I was shooting eggshells. Shell Time has the metaphor for hiding in our shell during the corona pandemic.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

Shell Time is about our world, which is momentarily very unstable. The process of creating absurd compositions from ordinary objects, has already become a routine for me, as well as the current reality, which until recently seemed to us insane and impossible.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time
© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time
Bio
Natalya Rasskazova is a Russian photographer. She was born in 1992 in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia. Now she lives in Moscow. In 2020 she graduated Fine Art School of Photography (Moscow, Russia). In her works, she explores the nature of everyday life and human behaviour in today's circumstances.

Shell Time

Still lifes of improvised materials from home

Words by

Natalya Rasskazova

Shell Time
© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

In self-isolation, I started to shoot still lifes of improvised materials from home. The series Shell Time became my way of working with photography during these limited circumstances.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

The objects on the images lost their utility and gained new connections and meanings. The title of the project came up while I was shooting eggshells. Shell Time has the metaphor for hiding in our shell during the corona pandemic.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time

Shell Time is about our world, which is momentarily very unstable. The process of creating absurd compositions from ordinary objects, has already become a routine for me, as well as the current reality, which until recently seemed to us insane and impossible.

© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time
© Natalya Rasskazova | Shell Time
Bio
Natalya Rasskazova is a Russian photographer. She was born in 1992 in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia. Now she lives in Moscow. In 2020 she graduated Fine Art School of Photography (Moscow, Russia). In her works, she explores the nature of everyday life and human behaviour in today's circumstances.
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