Metropolis
95 photos, 60*90 cm (series)
Locations: Paris, France
2022
In the series “Metropolis, ” I view the city as a monumental witness to a fundamental rupture in humanity’s social nature. Paris, a benchmark of classical urban aesthetics and history, is methodically deconstructed here. Its recognizable locations become lifeless stages, a theater of the absurd, where architectural harmony only serves to emphasize existential dissonance. The project is not merely a statement about loneliness in a crowd. It is a visual investigation into how digital uncertainty is reformatting the very fabric of human relationships. I capture the urban environment with impeccable, almost algorithmic precision (strict symmetry, calculated perspective, contrast of light and shadow), transforming it into a metaphor for the digital matrix in which modern individuals are trapped. The human figures, when they appear, dissolve into this geometry, becoming silhouettes, data points—lonely and lost not in spite of, but because of hyper-connectivity. Light and shadow in my frames are not just a formal device. They are a battlefield: harsh shadows are cracks in reality, traps of alienation; islands of light are fragile, temporary aesthetic refuges that I try to locate within the concrete-asymmetric landscape of modernity. These refuges are as illusory as a smartphone screen replacing a living gaze. “Metropolis” is a materialization of vulnerability in the face of the digital entropy that corrodes genuine connection. I capture the moment when the classical beauty of the city (its forms, perspectives, its very soul) is deformed under the pressure of a new, inhuman logic—the logic of replacing real relationships with digital simulacra. The series becomes a dialogue with the fear of a future where the city-museum transforms into a mirror of our collective isolation. This is not nostalgia, but a strategy of resistance—an attempt to use the aesthetic clarity of photography to create a shield against disintegration and to illuminate with the flashlight of art the chasm that gapes between us in the midst of a noisy, “connected” metropolis.
