“Vertigo” in The Color of Days (Daily Life 2015, by Fabian Hugo) - Swiss Press Award
La Couleur des jours
Fabian Hugo
Partial publication of the personal work series "Vertigo" in "La Couleur des jours," Issue No. 12 - Fall 2014 Vertigo: In the midst of everyday scenes, the stages of the ordinary and the commonplace, I search for the radically new. For images that, in their superficiality, hardly differ from our given perception of reality, yet carry the essential and hidden difference within themselves. In this sense, I search for the aura of the unusual amidst the ordinary, the so-called invisible, the atmosphere. "For the banal can just as easily conceal the extraordinary behind itself, as the extraordinary conceals the banal behind itself," says Kirkegaard. In my photographs, the everyday and the banal are always also a place of the abysmal and the uncanny, of the "simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar," as Sigmund Freud put it. I'm looking for the light in the shades of gray and the vertigo in security. Because even in our era of control by science and technology, the existential vertigo is far from gone.
