“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Travel photographs can give us inspiration. Make us feel admiration, joy or sadness. But do we ever think about the stories behind those beautiful pictures? Do we ever guess about what a photographer was thinking while shooting his work? Looking at a photo of a breathtaking landscape or a portrait, do we ever imagine how many hours the photographer would wait for that exact moment to take the shot or maybe this was a lucky one-second click when a photographer was just in a right place at a right time?
This exhibition is a kind of a diary which shares a very personal experience of the travel photographer Dominik Derflinger. His photos and memories in the exhibition form a beautiful pattern which shows us a story of his photography journey during the last three years. Dominik is not afraid of stepping off the road and to wonder. For him to be in an unknown place doesn’t mean to be lost. It's an opportunity to be in the moment. See this wonderful universe for what it is.
From the endlessness of the Milky way to the infinity of someone’s eyes, we will see how he sees and senses different places. These are stories which need to be told and pictures which need to be seen and this exhibition we are lucky enough to follow Dominik Derflinger from here to the uninhabited deserts and mountains to the crowded streets of big cities and back again.
Opening:
2pm, May 13, 2017
Duration:
May 13 to May 26, 2017
Venue:
Exhibition Hall at Hangzhou Public Library
