Public Project
White silence
Copyright Pavel Tereshkovets 2024
Updated Dec 2011
Topics Art, Belarus, Environment, Hope, Minsk, Photography

In the days of moslem sex-shops, oil-hunting and antismoking campaigns people do realize more and more that they are consigned to absolute loneliness and isolation.

The human race keeps on growing and now its population has become so numerous that it doesn’t matter anymore how many people are there on the planet. New cities, tons of paving, glass and steel, night bars, sushi, nuclear power stations, denominations. Being flooded with the roar of the civilization people begin to keep silent and to wait for the right moment to stay with the nature face to face.

These are the rare moments for people to feel calmness, emptiness and the pulsating nature's fear.

But this project is not only about to reflect all that feelings of emptiness. It also has a political background. I wanted to show the inner world of each person living in Belarus – Europe’s last dictatorship where I come from. This country provides you with disappointment and despair in life.  People feel helpless. Violence is everywhere. Last years were filled with lots of horrible events and occasions. A bunch of innocent people were put to prison after the rigged elections 2010. Belarusians suffer but they keep silent and are too passive to try to change something.

My intension was to show the beauty of the nature and a person within it as well as to try to appeal to people living in Belarus and to their feelings, because something has definitely to be changed.

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