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Last Shot on Earth (2020)
Last Shot on Earth (2020)
The last photograph on Earth is literally the last. Each photo here is a point where the ground ran out for a car equipped with a Google camera, taking pictures for the Google Street View service. Each photo-point has a pair, the photo on the other side of the invisible line, where the camera movement stopped. And for each such pair there is a space, terra incognita, which you will hardly ever see.
In each pair, one photograph is always taken in Russia, the other is always on the other side of the state border - Finland, Ukraine, Estonia, Norway ... Each pair of photographs is accompanied by a map, which indicates the shooting points and the distance between them.
Using these clichéd landscapes, I would like to discuss the difference between the digital and the real world, the conventionality of borders between countries, and where the authorship ends or begins.
In each pair, one photograph is always taken in Russia, the other is always on the other side of the state border - Finland, Ukraine, Estonia, Norway ... Each pair of photographs is accompanied by a map, which indicates the shooting points and the distance between them.
Using these clichéd landscapes, I would like to discuss the difference between the digital and the real world, the conventionality of borders between countries, and where the authorship ends or begins.
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