Anastasia Cazabon
The work of Anastasia Cazabon is about telling stories. Stories that are no more than speaking about the real life as it is recreated from memories. The result is a sequence of images that relate to each other albeit each picture leaves you to wonder about the happenings, each photograph forces you to constructs the story that you like to understand. It is symbolic and it is direct, both qualities combined with exquisite aesthetics and compositions make her photography a craft of reality and fiction.
My images are based on my own childhood. Specifically the fantasy world I made up for myself. I’m the youngest of three sisters and by the time I was five my sisters were on their way to college. So I spent the majority of my childhood alone making up imaginary friends and adventures. My images are recreations of my childhood fantasies. Some are exaggerated and some are completely made up, but all are based on the feelings I had as a child.
These are private moments in a young girls life, memories that usually fade over time. In essence I’m photographing and recreating these very distant memories to further their existence. I have tried to make them as universal as possible, so that people can relate to the images. (via my art space)
A very interesting interview with Anastasia was published last year at the blog “My art Space”. Anastasia is the co-founder of the collective “The Exposure Project” (see their blog here)
