“I read in an astrophysics book, which became my bible, that the most natural movement in the universe was falling, imperceptible and inexorable. Everything falls towards extinction. I believe that the intuition of this slow slide along the curves of space-time is deeply inscribed in us. I even think it’s the origin of the secret sadness hidden in everything. It’s this intuition that I aim to transcribe in my book, like the acceptance of our finitude and a certain serenity in the face of it.”
In 2015, Ljubisa Danilovic published Le Désert russe (The Russian Desert) with éditions lamaindonne. The book, hailed by the public and critics alike, is now out of print. Three years later, Payne’s Moon, his new publication, reveals a radically different facet of the photographer’s work.
Ljubisa Danilovic has made several trips to the Danube delta in recent years, and with this book offers us a surprising and delicate portrait of this place. A land of sky and water, where time seems to slow down, the heart begins to beat more quietly and the mind calms down. Photographs that are as close as possible to the subject, with no frills, that go straight to the heart of the matter. The photographs’ broad palette of grays lends them a soft, melancholy quality. An artistically masterful series…
