I didn’t believe it. It was too unreal to understand. Therefore she gave me her hand and said: „Come, I’ll be with your mouth and will teach you what to say.“ I entered to this seemingly fictional story.
At first, she leads me to an abandoned tree. There was nothing around, emptiness. „This is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you want, pluck an apple.” She waited in silence whether I give up the sin. I held the apple with a sense of hesitation, whether yes or not.
She told me for the second time: „One day destruction will come. Test of humanity. In order to open its eyes and become better. Everything will change, I hope. The good will be heard and sin will be silenced.“
Finally, she pointed to the virgin clear sky which turned to dark red in front of my eyes. „This is darkness and blood, shed for the guilt of others,“ she said. I looked at the sky and there was silence. I’ve been standing there for an eternity. With the feeling that it all started and with the question of what will happen to us. I was silent.
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SILENCE (Series)
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Lukas Mach graduated from the Faculty of Technology at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. In his personal life he is a photographer with a passion for poetry, in his work-life he is a mechanical designer. Since 2010 he has been focusing on analog photography. In today’s documentary photography which prevails, he is one of the few actively engaged in staged photography with a considerable overlap to the conceptualism, which was on the rise in the early 70’s in then Czechoslovakia. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic.
All of his series, which are fundamentally photographed in natural light conditions and at black and white 35mm analog film, carry the characters of a cold atmosphere together with film grain, which adds to the resulting series his characteristically unmistakable manuscript.
All of his series, which are fundamentally photographed in natural light conditions and at black and white 35mm analog film, carry the characters of a cold atmosphere together with film grain, which adds to the resulting series his characteristically unmistakable manuscript.
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