The true story behind the broken egg is a sad story of a lady who thinks she is having the whole world and she is able to pick and choose everyone and everything. She is young and partly infant partly seductive with limitless capability, but in the moment when her dreams are coming true, she becomes scared and in her attempts to escape she becomes a prisoner of her own fears. In this scenes the egg is the symbol of the wishes and dreams and the meaning is not to break them, but to keep them and try to reach them without any fear. The crow is the person who always helps us and is a bit strict, a bit too moral. That’s why I chose the bird-man to wear a suit. It is black because we don’t see them all the time as helpers or teachers, we see them as septum and something we have to escape from. The hammer is the selfishness and the breakage of the connection between the generations. The splashes make the effect of the breaking stronger and attractive. The butterflies are the symbol of all of the dreams we let to fly away from us, while we are waiting for them to happen or we are just afraid to follow them. At the end, the lady is realizing that all her dreams are gone and in the moment of pure madness and anger she breaks her own illusionary world only to realise she is captured in a cage by her own fears. I have tried to make abstract representation of our fear boundaries, and how we are able to destroy our world so easily because of that fear, and even forget we are not alone and how we stop listening to those who are trying to help us.
We made the photo session in my home studio in London. The model is Tanita Ivanova. I used Canon 110D 28-80 mm, 50 mm and 18-55 mm. Soft box light for the front light (main), soft box for the reflect light which I placed far from the model, just to get the spreading defining light, a small single spreading light down in front of the model to sinchronize the shadow and to make it a little bit softer using reflector in the right hand side from the model.
ISO 200, f smallest possible(depending from the lens, shutter speed 1/100 and 1/250 (depending of the lens).
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The aperitif Scene 1
The aperitif Scene 2
The aperitif Scene 3
For whom the bell tolls
I have chosen my favourite Scene 1
I have chosen my favourite Scene 2
I have chosen my favourite Scene 3
For whom the bell tolls Scene 2
The crow is bringing the hammer Scene 1
She took the hammer
Hammer smashed egg Scene 1
Hammer smashed egg Scene 2
Hammer smashed egg Scene 3
Hammer smashed egg Scene 4
The butterfly attack Scene 1
The butterfly attack Scene 2
The butterfly attack Scene 3
Breaking the wall Scene 1
Breaking the wall Scene 2
Breaking the wall Scene 3
Breaking the wall Scene 4
Breaking the wall Scene 5
Breaking the wall Scene 6
Maximum damage Scene 1
Maximum damage Scene 2
Maximum damage Scene 3
Maximum damage Scene 4
Maximum damage Scene 5
In the prison on our own Scene 1
At the prison of the cage Scene 1
