Daisuke Takakura
holds many roles. As an actor, photographer and graphic designer, he drew
influence from his own life and work to create Monodramatic, a series
about the variousness of an individual. In theater, there is a style known as
monodrama. It’s a method that involves just one actor, playing one character.
For this project, Takakura began with this technique but decided to push the
boundaries of what a monodrama could be. He wanted to explore the convergence
of many singular selves. “I wanted to harness the expressive power of theater
in a still image,” he explains in his artist statement. As a whole, the series
looks at the possibility of another you. While each image on contains it’s own
unique narrative.
For each fictional
scenario, Takaura selects one model and spends a few hours photographing them
with various expressions and in different situations. He carefully selects
varying landscape for the scenes to play out. He then masterfully composites
the final image together. The result distorts reality in a surreal interaction
of the self.
I love the fact that all of these pictures look almost like
a musical number. With so many people in
the shot you would think that it be a mess.
However all of the people are doing different things but the photo looks
like organized chaos.
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