Yev Kazannik  - is an experimental photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He studied photography at The London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) and worked as a commercial photographer for over 15 years, with work published in The Guardian, Wire, Wax Poetics, NME, XLR8R, Electronic Beats and others. He moved away from working with traditional camera techniques in 2019 and developing a new analogue process, such as Lumen Printing and Photogram among others. Evgeniy’s work engages with themes of time and timeless, human mind and its constructions. His work has been exhibited internationally and is a part of private and museum collections including National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow and the Union of Photographers collection, Kaliningrad. His resent series was awarded Silence Awareness Existence residency at  Arteles Creative Centre in Haukijärvi, Finland in February 2020 where he is planning to spend most of the march 2022 searching for the Northern Lights and meaning of … art.

'Principles of gravity are occult': Isaac Newton

Inspired by the ideas of Rudolf Arnheim and Vladimir Zhukovskiy, Kazannik’s current series is a reflection on the potential of visual perception both for opening, but also for sublimating cognitive pathways —  either stimulating thought processes and problem-solving — particularly for people with dyslexia or other forms of “word blindness”, or pushing linear ‘linguistic’ cognitions into non-verbal abstractions. Language presents its insolvency when confronted with complex, intuitive or gnostic perception,while  images can continue to communicate. The power of images, open to individual subjectivity,  to trigger the mind’s innate tendency to create, dependent on an individual’s identifications and conditioning,  is the major theme of Kazannik’s current series.

Following in the footsteps of French physician and parapsychologist, Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc, who in the late XVIII - early XlX century attempted to take photographs of thoughts and emotions, Yev’s work contemplates whether the fragility and temporality of the image-making process can bring us closer to elements of the realm of the invisible world.

Light-reactive Lumen prints are embodied, purely analogue, in nature. The physical apparition of astral forms in the red light and mephitic waters of the darkroom chemicals is a compelling and dramatic process in it’s ephemerality. The mystery of the  process draws and guides the artist in his creative experiments, touching the ineffable cosmic soup, inspired by the unknown.