Laura Makabresku and her dark visual fables

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Laura Makabresku is a young polish artist that creates visual fables with her particularly dark photography.

Her captured visions touch delicate and personal themes, going from personal and social problems of an individual to simply affirming the fragility of the human race.

The bodies captured on camera are abandoned, pale and emaciated, often turning their blank gaze towards the ground, leaving a mark of anxiety, but not without giving the chance to its viewer to interpret that also as a depiction of dreaming.
All of those emotions are represented with the rarely shown faces and the gestures of affection, under lightly faded and cold colors, that have a strong emotive impact. There is silence in between these images, as if the subjects are waiting for something, maybe someone who can love them, or are more simply expressing their frustration.
Makabresku's photos are based on her world and real life, and the frequent presence of animals derive from her memories of her grandfather who used to hunt and involved her in the killing of the animals, letting her play with them afterwards. Nowadays, as an artist, she turns her glance to her past and re-enacts those moments.
About her work, she says: "There are many places in my daily life which I share with the world that I create in my photos. They are connected with each other by isolation, fear, sensitiveness and mostly fairy tales.

When I was in a primary school, I had already realized that I was strongly differ from my peers. And I'm not talking only about being a lonely type of person, but also I was always running away from the real world into world of dreams.

I stopped meeting with my friends, talking to anyone, I was constantly asking parents to take me to the countryside where my grandparents live.

This was the place where I could take care of my fairy tale world: amongst the animals, in enormous, lonely orchards where often fog and rain roved."