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Insecure
Photography by Moataz Nasr
Insecure consists of three large photographic prints made with
a very special sun printing technique. Nasr comments: “I’m using
a very ancient method for producing images that no one uses
any more, it’s called ‘Van Dick’ or ‘Sun Print’”. The negative
is transferred onto drawing paper treated with an emulsion and
exposed to the sun until the image begins to develop. Only then
is the photo processed with industrial chemical elements. This
method enables the artist to personally control every phase
of the work, guaranteeing the originality and distinctiveness
of every photo. The subjects of these photos are Middle Eastern
faces reflected in the water, portraits of people but also portraits
of a society. Insecure develops a central theme in the poetics
of the artist: human insecurity, the instability of our existence
and the impossibility of recognizing and being ourselves.
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