Souleymane Bachir Diaw

I am submitting works from an ongoing project titled "Lucid dreams". "Lucid Dreams" is developed as an experience of transition, transformation and progression for over a year now. In this project, the photographer utilises self-portraits and staged scenes of friends as a means to create spaces and moments of meditation. Meditation on the self, as well as environmental and human surroundings. The use of body, fabrics, geometrical and natural elements are essential in this process. With the body as common thread, they express different types of transitions. In addition, the images contain a spiritual dimension which refers to our connection to the whole ecosystem in which we live. Overall, the project aims to set discussions about the way we live transitions and how we apprehend them on a "self level"; meaning, we must be conscious players of the transitions we are evolved in.