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About my artwork: All the details in a scene are imprinted on a negative. As an Artist, I see a positive print as a reproduction, and a negative as the imprint of reality, the testimony of a micro-second. These thoughts coursed through my mind as I examined my negatives in the tranquil guest-houses at night in India, back in 1992. I was fascinated by the manner in which negatives reveal what the eye cannot see, the complement of what the eye does see. I tried to envision how light travels and gets lost. I marveled how black is the absence of light and white the sum of all colors. I tried to see how light travels through space and hits an object: some rays are absorbed and others reflected. The latter are those that allow us to see color; it is those that affect the emulsion on the celluloid. At this point, my thoughts get lost like the path of light. I cannot really follow what is reflected and what is absorbed.

It is the “space between” that I discovered in India, that space between the Ying and the Yang, between the sum of all colors and its absence. I found this space in my negatives. I proceeded to find a way to enlarge them in order to explore that magical gap.

Artists I like: Henri Matisse, Yves Klein, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andres Serrano

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At 3:09pm on 22nd January 2010, Galerie ARTAe Leipzig, Sabine Aichele-Elsner said…: Hallo Akim,
würde mich sehr freuen, wenn Du an dem Fotowettbewerb "Neue Bilder vom Alter(n)" teilnehmen würdest. http://www.artae.de/popup/fotowettbewerb.html
www.altern-in-deutschland.de
Herzliche Gruesse, Sabine

At 4:06pm on 23rd November 2009, Ernst Theis said…: Hallo Akim, Danke für Deine Freundschaft auf artreview. Im September war ich 4 Tage in Berlin. Das nächste mal könnten wir uns ja mal treffen. Deine Photos sind einfach toll, ich mag sie sehr.
Herzliche Grüße,
Ernst