Gomma Photography Grant 2020
Safety Cards
Photographer
Arseniy Neskhodimow
Safety Cards
01 Feb, 2022
A few years ago I developed a fear of flying because I started to look at the safety instructions every time I got on a plane. In fact there are many different safety guides and all of them describe a world riddled with pending danger and give advice on what to do if something goes wrong. I started taking pictures of my wife and I, who had been living in isolation together for 90 days due to the pandemic. I realized that, just like on a plane, I do not control anything. My life had become just as precarious as an AirBus flight with heavy turbulence. The only thing I could do is to stay home. My pictures only illustrate the fact that live in a world of complete uncertainty and I don’t have any answers to any question. My performances do not prove or disprove anything, they are merely actions from inaction.
About the photographer
Arseniy Neskhodimow
Arseniy Neskhodimov was born in Uzbekistan lives/works in Moscow. He was born in 1981 and his work often touches on issues of disillusionment and alienation felt by the generation born in the early 1980s. They have been called Xennials, a micro-generation who feel neither millennial or Gen X, people who had an analogue childhood followed by a digital adulthood.
