Narrowed Selection: Airports. Quest of nature, home & comfort
Air travel once was a matter of luxury. Decades ago considered a miracle, flying commercial aviation now is regarded to be as usual as taking a bus. Nowadays, it is a part of our routine, which constantly reveals itself in new faces. Advertising aura of commercial aviation services fuels our imagination. But the reality joins up space and time, in which the advertising image crashes into reality. Easiness meets the fatigue, comfort meets stress, luxury meets tawdriness, dreams hit into material reality, the feeling of safety is overtaken by that of vulnerability and discontent, and sometimes the logic meets absurdity.
Travelling extensively, I started to admire the daily life around the commercial aviation, even the one seen from the perspective of a passenger. I mostly focus on people, but sometimes photograph places and objects. My fellow passengers whom I photograph in that isolated world of waiting areas or aircraft cabins are kind of prisoners of rules, regulations and restrictions, who can comfort themselves saying “I fly, therefore I am”.
The photographs I have taken are taken before, during, after, between or onboard flights in / to / from / between Europe, USA, Asia, Australia.
The selection is a quick pick from a large project in progress, which focuses on the travel experience generally and covers themes, such as media and advertising, signs, boredom and fatigue, airport interiors, in-flight attractions, food and drink, portraits of travellers and crew, staff members, travel with children, tax free shopping.
The photographs of the „Travel’Air – Air Travel“ have not been published in printed matter outside Lithuania and the images have not been exhibited at all.
Airports where images where taken (by order of appearance) in :
Porto, OPO
Zurich, ZRH
Frankfurt, FRA
Helsinki, HEL
Zurich, ZHR
Beijing, PEK
Paris, CDG
Frankfurt, FRA
Oslo Rygge, RYG
Singapore, SIN
Vilnius, VNO
Singapore, SIN
Kaunas, KUN
Sydney, SYD
Amsterdam, AMS
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
