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Daily Portrait Prague
Dimension: photo dimension: 108mm x 86mm, box dimension: 100mm x 130mm x 120mm. Number of photos: 371. Paper: 300g, glossy lamination. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Published in 2014 by YINACHI / Budweiser Urban Projects BU2R. ISBN: 987-80-904735-6-0

City image - Daily Portrait II 2012-2013: After the first year of this project, Martin Pavel launched his second phase. This time with a Polaroid photography medium. He shifted the project to even greater degree of depersonalization of portrayed people. This time, his goal was no longer to create a portrait set of individual personalities but a compact documentary portrait of one city. Limits of the portrait are now disrupted by shift of his focus to general context of milieu forming the portrayed objects and vice versa. Theme of his photography is now half-naked figure of the portrayed person captured in the city environment of which they usually are a quiet component.

The photographer is intentionally choosing such places which we pass by in hustle and bustle of everyday life. By using a provoking photograph he is trying to extract the portrayed person from this environment. At the same time, his effort is to discover the nature of these places through the portrayed object. In the centre of his interest is an investigation of city's visual culture consisted not only of both people and typical panoramas with architecture, but also of the details of graphic signs or inscriptions. Author's aim is to capture the city as a mental picture created with individual units and details, and dominant figures with multi-layer background. Captured everydayness is also expressed via number of photographs in the whole set which counts 365 portraits representing the count of days in the year.

For the author, each photo session represented an individual meeting with an unknown person. He admits that one of his motivations for photographing large number of people was his interest in meeting different individuals with which he would not have any opportunity to get acquainted. Everyday, people are limited to personal contact only with few people present in their immediate surroundings. In many cases, even portrayed participants themselves joined the project not because they wanted to make themselves visible medially, but to demonstrate, by symbolic public exposure of their naked bodies, certain removal of formal barriers among people. He wanted to point out that they do not exist in the city only as a noise or as an indifferent background creating everyday reality, but also as human beings which you can possibly get to know. Entire project is thus motivated by a social gesture of a goal of bringing people living in one city closer to each other. //Text: Jana Pavlova

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