On May 2, an exhibition opened at DiDi "The Art of 'Sanki'" Valentina Samarina – a unique figure in world photography. For fifty years, he developed methods of transforming photographic images taken on black-and-white film. Using photochemistry, he turns the negative into a color positive, and brings the photographic image to the highest level of generalization, up to abstraction.
The artist calls his work Sanki art — this is a special technique of "new old" photography on a bromosilver base. According to the author's definition, Sanki is "the mystery of old silver photography, the metamorphosis of energy projections invisible in normal photography, the metaphysics of invisible projections of Light and Shadow of the spiritual world of man, his passions." The word "sanki" itself is borrowed from the book on ancient Chinese philosophy "Sens-energetika".
Valentin Samarin, using various techniques, transforms captured reality into a flowing and pulsating color plasma that reveals not so much the physical parameters of reality as its hidden essence, its metaphysical dimension. The main thing in Sanki photography is a ray, a gleam of heavenly light, which exists and can arise in every person. This light is the main "superposition" of Sanki photographs.
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