“Wonder Wheels.” All images © Kylli Sparre, shared with permission
Often blurring or concealing the faces of her dramatically posed figures, Kylli Sparre (previously) captures magical portraits of young women and girls. The fine art photographer, who is based in Tallinn, captures her lone subjects amidst swirling swaths of fabric or perched atop a towering mass of bicycle wheels. Many are in motion, whether dancing against hazy landscapes and or scooting across calm waters.
Sparre tells Colossal that she’s begun to experiment with technical aspects of her process by using a scanner, piecing together images in collages, and experimenting with movement and exposure time. Although she notes that many of her forays into underwater photography “will never see the light of day,” she’s “trying to be as open as I can… I think what has demanded me to grow, is the wish to keep finding the “something” in an image, that would touch a chord in me. Because what I find interesting, slightly changes over time. It is not always an easy task to be truthful to this inner scale, but still essential.”
To see more of Sparre’s conceptual projects focused on the female figure, head to Instagram.
“Disquiet”
“Learning Wheels”
“Modest Troubles”
“Mismeeting”
“Wild Things in Mild Wind”
“Line in Time”
“Excusing Shadows”
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Source: Art - thisiscolossal.com
