Here’s a name everybody should know: Mira Nedyalkova
Portrait of the artist.
As an illustrator and model, she discovered photography in 2007 as a way to express the deeper feelings she shared in her drawings. As she explains in her artist statement, “ My photographs are not exactly a photographs, my creations are somewhere in between paintings and photography. In my images I use pain as a beauty, erotic as a psychological way of life. I express myself and my intimate inner life.”
I am normally not a fan of underwater photography. I always seems a bit contrived and relies way too much on the entire spectacle of a woman in water with various fabric and props floating about and not so much in rooting it all in a single thread of purpose. The work of Nedyalkova, however, cuts the air with a sharp knife of focus. Each image expertly expresses a deep emotional connection to death and life and “the eternal struggle and attempt to erase, to dull, to heal the pain, sadness, loneliness…”
