TITLE: TRAPPED IN THE SELF

We live in an ever-changing world where we can communicate 24 hours a day with a wide variety of technical possibilities. We share our lives on social networks, share our lives with the world. We are exposing ourselves and our lives. Nevertheless, many people are lonely and inwardly alone. You can't "get out of your skin". Many attempts to penetrate the shell that surrounds us fail. This sheath is intangible, it is elastic, stretchy, you can see through it (even if only vaguely), yet we do not succeed in overcoming it. We are trapped in ourselves!! Will we ever be able to break through this shell and be free? Is that what we really want, because without a cover we feel naked (expression of the naked model)?!

The series shows a possible process of development.

First, cautious first steps (Fig. 1). The adaptation - how do others do it (Fig. 2) up to the self-presentation (Fig. 3).

Now the anger (fury) that now rises (picture 4), the way doesn't work and something stands in my way. Desperation spreads at not having a solution (Fig. 5), which then develops into a violent compulsion to break out (Fig. 6).

Only now a pause, first attempts at touch (picture 7), a feeling of myself. In the end, a first insight (Fig. 8) and the question "What now?".

The exit is intentionally left open and leaves room for the viewer's own thoughts.

Photographer
Alexander Weyda

AUTHOR: Alexander Weyda (Germany)

My name is Alexander Weyda, born in 1971 in Augsburg, I live in southern Bavaria near Augsburg and am an ambitious amateur photographer.

I had my first contact with photography when I was 8 years old, when I won a pocket camera at a raffle. Since that day, photography has never let me go
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What started as a "simple snap" has developed into an important part of my life over time. The focus of my work has always been people. There are so many exciting things to discover and implement here. Every human being is an individual and infinitely multifaceted. That's what my pictures live from.

For several years now, I have been concentrating on not only planning more and more projects, but also implementing them. The artistic aspect also takes up more and more space in my works and I try to tell more and more stories with my pictures.