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So in around 2015-18 or thereabouts, I was really obsessed with abandoned locations and surrealist photography (still am but would spend legit hours looking back then)
I vividly recalled one of my favourite ones the other day, and upon looking for it, I could not find it! I've stayed up till like 3 am looking for 4 nights in a row and I'm obsessed at this point. Here are some features I recall well.
Post apocalyptic photoset. They weren't just regular old pictures of crumbling Soviet monuments, however, but edited landscape photos. Not paintings, not sculptures.
Heavy use of Eastern Bloc/Post-Soviet buildings and Brutalist architecture. A lot of the pictures included large Soviet statues and buildings, but toppled to the ground Ozymandias-style, on a dust-laden earth.
I feel like the word Dust was in the title. Dust Scar was the one I thought it was, but I couldn't find anything. I tried things Dustworld or Dustborn or Dustlands, but came up empty. This is a dubious feeling though, may not be relavant.
This was a series of photos together, not just one singular image. It may have been made for a photography book, but I can't remember. I DO however remember an article about it, and an interview with the author. Talking about evoking the fleeting nature of empire or a fallen dictatorship. Artist MAY have been Spanish but big may.
I've seen several artists and sculptors like this since searching, but these were not paintings. Think like the crumbling statues from President's Park or even the artwork for the song Machine by Imagine Dragons as similar stuff. However, as previously stated, these were shots edited together onto a destroyed landscapes, not just a fallen statue of Stalin.
That's pretty much it! It's a relatively recent one, made in the past 10 years definitely. I've been going crazy looking so please help! It's also a really cool set. I asked r/Surrealism but didn't get any answers. Happy hunting! Thank You!!
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