'Sea Dogs - Scene 1' - Frieke Janssens

'Sea Dogs - Scene 1' - Frieke Janssens

In Lightness, photographer Frieke Janssens presents a cathartic series of images about humanity, the urge for escapism and the individual search for meaning. Her compositions float on the visual contrast between weightlessness and gravity, water and air, aesthetics and imperfection. With the sea and its eternal sequence of ebb and flow as an undertone, the photographer considers the universally human. To what extent can we ever know or understand the other?

Over the past twenty years, Frieke Janssens has built up a solid reputation in the field of staged photography. Her imagery is both surprising and playful and betrays a great sense of humor. It is often imbued with tension and her works exude an unspoken, tragic undercurrent. Janssens' images are lushly beautiful, but touch on subjects that are not: death, smoking, drinking and the battle between the sexes.