Shortcut of the Day: Aleksey Kondratyev | ‘Fabricated Adventures’
I am a photographer from Detroit, Michigan. However, I’m originally from Kyrgyzstan. I’m currently studying photography in university. ‘Fabricated Adventures,’ a new series that I’m working on about artificial environments that people use for recreational purposes. I want to show how people have come to not only have the capabilities to physically alter their environment, but to go beyond that to replicate it to varying degrees of accuracy. I think of these environments as reflections of a larger culture of increasingly simulated experiences. As we go further into the ‘digital age,’ more artificial simulations replace authentic experiences. To me, Photography is a way to show existing things in a different way than they might be physically or consciously perceived by visually studying a subject, and that’s what I hope to do with this series.