Holiday snap: Should someone check if she's alright? Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
Holiday snap: Should someone check if she's alright? Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
Some photo spots are in danger of being done to death.
For one avant-garde Instagrammer who goes under the alias STEFDIES, that's her intention.
The artist has been travelling the world collecting a series of photos for her Instagram page in which she lies prone, face down, and by allappearances dead, at famous photo locations.
Death in Rome. Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
Her photos at London's Tower Bridge, the Amalfi Coast and the Eiffel Tour look like any other travel snap - if it weren't for the lifeless form, centre of frame.
"STEFDIES is a celebration of life," says the artist.
Death in Amalfi. Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
On the artist's website she writes that there is no particular method to taking the photos. She sees a spot she likes, frames it, and . . . flop.
She states that "no special equipment, lighting or conditions are met" and that these images are taken on whim as part of a normal day.
Death in San Francisco. Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
Each photo, she says, "strives to get back to the roots of what a photograph was intended to be - a captured moment in time".
Her signature STEFDIES photos are a kind of "I was here" while also provoking a "discussion on mortality" with each photo a reminder that our vacation time is finite.
Death in Provence. Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
One day we too will find ourselves "like our face down figure."
While most tourists are looking for a souvenir memento , rather than a "memento mori" the photo project provides valuable train of thought.
Death in Spain. Photo / Instagram, STEFDIES
We get the picture. Should someone check if she's alright?
