one small seed » tears | one small seed https://www.onesmallseed.com South Africa's Pop Culture Platform Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:24:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 OLEG DOU: BETWEEN THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE REPULSIVE https://www.onesmallseed.com/2015/03/oleg-dou/ https://www.onesmallseed.com/2015/03/oleg-dou/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:43:34 +0000 http://www.onesmallseed.com/?p=43162 The first thing Oleg Dou remembers from his childhood, is being electrocuted when he was two years old. From the moment he ‘cleaned up’ a photo of a friend too much, he decided to go forward with this hauntingly beautiful style of photography.

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

“I am looking for something bordering between the beautiful and the repulsive, living and dead.”

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

I find it extremely important to do what I do beautifully; not for beauty itself per se, but more so as a tool that makes my ideas both interesting and workable.

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

I want to concoct a situation that happens, for example, in european films: There doesn’t seem to be a specific message, but the situation plays with our head and makes us ask ourselves questions like ‘what is this?’ and ‘what is this for?’

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

Oleg Dou - "Tears"

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