TITLE: The Metaphorical Wet Plates: Blackout Insights

"The Metaphorical Wet Plates" is the series of images obtained using the collodion process. Like metaphorical "OH" cards, these photographs can be a substrate for projection of the mental processes, the depths of the subconscious and the individual myths about the inner and outer world, where erotic attractions, states of fear, problems of self-identification, insoluble existential questions, beauty, monstrosity, madness are intertwined... Each image is a narrative from which the spectator can expel the author and find something of his own there. Photos were taken using Alfred Brückner Rabenau large format camera with Hugo Meyer Trioplan 4,5 300mm lens.

AUTHOR: Pablo Fanque (Russian Federation)

Pablo Fanque's Fair is the project in the field of visual arts based on photography that combines historical and contemporary techniques in aspiration to present in images a beauty that is physically tangible. Motive force of Pablo Fanque's Fair is the wish to penetrate in magical realism of surrounding reality instead of meaningless routine. The project's creativity is inspired by the highest meanings of life: Beauty, Love and Peace... Peace is the virtue of civilization, make love, not war!
The project Pablo Fanque's Fair was founded at the end of 2019 - beginning of 2020.
Winner of photo contests (IPA 2021, First Place (Analog / Film, Portrait); Budapest International Foto Awards 2021 - Silver Winner (Fine Art-Nudes); MonoVisions Awards 2021 - 3rd Place in Nude Category, MonoVisions Awards 2024 - 2nd Place in Nude Category, Analog Sparks 2023 & 2024 - Silver Winner (Fine Art / Erotism), Tokyo Foto Awards 2024 - Gold Winner in Fine Art-Nudes Category and participant of exhibitions (Trieste Photo Days festival 2021 (Italy); "Regeneration” (August 2021), "Time” (August 2022), "Art of Illusion” (January 2023), "Film Friends" (November 2023) and others by Analog Forever Magazine, "2/22/22 Exhibition: Pairs and Diptychs" (LENSCRATCH, 2022), WANDERING CURVES 2021 (NYC4PA) - JUROR SELECTION, "I Want to Believe" (Rome, Italy, 2023, organized by LoosenArt), Trieste Photo Days festival 2023 (Italy), "GRAYSCALE”, "NOCTURNAL", "STORYTELLER", "SQUARE II", "BLACK AND WHITE" (Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, 2023-2024); artworks of Pablo Fanque's Fair are presented in magazines (Shoot It With Film, Fuzz Magazine, Iconic Artist Magazine, NART Magazine and others) and in Editors' selections on fine art photography platforms (Art Limited, STRKNG).