TITLE: A Self-Portrait from Hell

Contorted with rage and emotional pain in an indefinite space in the darkness, helpless in a primal state of nudity, a man struggles with himself.

Nothing we know about this individual. Perhaps he was a solid, emotionally stable person in the past. Maybe he even was a caring, warm human being. Maybe some kind of insecurity troubled him, maybe some aspects of his relationship with the world started to ashame and anger him, and maybe he had never developed the ability to express these feelings and they started to slowly, silently bottle up until they became unbearable and overwhelmed him. Maybe by the time he noticed it, he was no longer himself.

This is what was left in the ground zero of a devastated mind.

AUTHOR: Alex Lobo (Japan)

Alex Lobo was raised in Madrid, Spain. Being passionate about all kinds of visual arts since an early age, he graduated from an audiovisual technical school and moved to London in 2005, where he soon developed a passion for photography that has also accompanied him to Japan, his home since 2013. He specializes in fine art and portrait photography.

https://www.instagram.com/images_in_the_shadows/


Awards and exhibitions:
• 2017 (May-June): work exhibited at the Blank Wall gallery (Athens, Greece) as part of the Fine Art photography exhibition.
• 2019 (June): work exhibited at the Milepiani gallery (Rome, Italy) within the Urban lights exhibition organized by LoosenArt.com.
• 2020 (June): work featured by Dodho Magazine
https://www.dodho.com/the-murky-corners-of-the-human-soul-by-alex-lobo/
• 2020 (August): work featured by F-stop Magazine in its “Stay home together” group exhibition.
https://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html
• 2020 (August): Juror's Choice at Monochrome exhibition (PH21 gallery, Budapest, Hungary)
https://www.ph21gallery.com/monochrome-20 • 2020 (September): Honorable Mention at the 15th Pollux Awards
https://www.thegalaawards.com/15th-pollux-nonpro-portrait-to-wildlife