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• Photographer
  Konstantin Grebnev, Russian Federation

From the ancient times desert was the place to remove from the
outside world, a place of seclusion, dipping into the personal inner
world, a place of spiritual practices. Many people are attracted by
such kind of places, empty and simultaneously filled with certain
purity. Once there, a person loses a familiar relationship with the
environment around. No social connections and social networks,
no media pressure, absolute minimalism in surrounding space,
informational vacuum. Appears the purity of consciousness, the
purity of thought. Man unwittingly plunges inward himself, while
having the opportunity to experience and feel the space around.
And internally freed from the flow of information he can find some
line between reality and materialism of this world and the world of
another, experienced at that moment.

The image of the desert expresses a certain dream of the
possibility of dismissal or filter out unnecessary information flow
for a cleaner perception and awareness of themselves and the
world we are living in. Desert is the image of ideal place. The place
of the purification experience that person can retain inside
himself.

• Awards
  2016 Moscow International Foto Awards (honorable mention) 2016 9th Annual International Color Awards (honorable mention) 2016 9th Annual International Color Awards (nominated) 2016 Fine Art Photography Awards (nominated) 2016 Le Grand Photo International Awards (nominated) 2015 Le Grand Photo International Awards (nominated) 2015 10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards (nominated) 2013 8th Annual Black & White Spider Awards (nominated) ​