Photomanipulation 3rd place winner

This work emerged from a spontaneous portrait session with an LGBTQ+ individual, shaped by intuition, immediacy, and improvised props.
Within unplanned gestures and poses, familiar curves and tensions appear — not as direct references, but as inherited echoes of the past.
The project reflects on the concept of eternal return: while eras, cultural contexts, and social conditions shift, the human body endures as a vessel of continuity, carrying countless lives and stories forward, subtly reflected in the gaze.

Model wished to remain anonymous.

Pieces of art:

Fallen Angel painting by Alexandre Cabanel
The Creation of Adam painting by Michelangelo
Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea) painting by Hippolyte Flandrin
Eugène Delacroix — Head of a Young Man
David sculpture by Michelangelo

Oleg Buyanov was born in 1993 in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia), Russia. In 2016 graduated faculty of Journalism and worked as a photographer and a media producer in Saint Petersburg. From 2022 lives in Jerusalem, Israel. His photography focuses on finding elusive beauty in the changing world.

His works have been featured in All About Photo magazine, Hintology magazine, won Honorable Mention in Fine Art Abstract in the 2023 International Photography Award, were exposed in 2023 Art Of Photography exhibition at Art Square Gallery New York, 2023 Harmony exhibition at Pop Up Gallery in Jerusalem, Israel, 2023 The Alphabet of Modernity: Observations exhibition and 2022 The Alphabet of Modernity: Points of Strength exhibition in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, won 1st place in Photography nomination in the 2011 Tvori-Gora Festival.

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