Published by Yvette Depaepe
Text and pictures by Marc Apers 
Published the 7th of December 2020

'Silence is golden'

Marc Apers started rather late with photography, first with slides but soon turned to black and white photography which remains his passion till today. After working almost 20 years in the darkroom he finally made the decision in 2010 to turn to the digital process and admits that he don't regret it. He is a most talented artist who considers photography as a fantastic medium and discussing forum.
Read more in this interview with Marc.

But today, I like to present you a small conceptual series expressing Marc's thoughts roaming free about isolation which never shines, it's art and freedom that truly shines.

These are dark times.
Within five photographs in shades of grey, the colour yellow is but a word, and we are not poets
such as Boccacio.

WHAT THEN?

We see, we see a man, a white spot upon his hair, an emptiness within his head, standing between the white screen of a smartphone and the empty frame of an unopened window.

'Losing my mind'

Under a double cross of neon light, a woman sees herself framed within a mirror window. But only her back, what remains is vague and black.

'Intellectual illumination'

Then the frame tilts, and what escapes? A dark and curved body? A ghost from the pages of a book where little light escapes the pages?

'Pointless'

It, she or he, appraises you, masked and strange. Above, the sky, where the sun still shines over the contemporary plague.

'A dark mind'

Then... three black frames without text, a human being bending towards what seems intuitively self evident.

'Und dann'

Between two questions, is there a clear answer? No sun, no colour, no yellow warmth.
I'd prefer five photographs of eroticism, but thats for another time.

A photographer, like a writer, is but a seismograph of the times.
He records the curve, captures and prints what he sees of the The Splendid Isolation.
But isolation never shines, it's art and freedom that truly shines.
The Sun remains yellow, to become red-orange again in time.

Will the dark circle be broken with a virus vaccine within a hundred days? Who knows...

So we must refuse to isolate ourselves lost in gloomy thoughts.
Let your thoughts roam free, expressed in pictures of your fellow man.

Marc Apers