Project:
“Traces of Time”
Visual Suite for Flowers, Light and DSLR
Pigment Prints, Hahnemühle Matte - Size 49"x 39"
Edition Limited to Seven
Stillness is only slow motion. In my reimagining of the classic study, a flower slips its form; one slow shutter glide turns petal into a soft, rushing ribbon of light.
Each photograph holds one unrepeatable exhale - impermanence made visible.
Drawn into the light, the eye travels - breathe in and you almost catch the flower’s scent drifting in the air.
At mural scale, the image drinks the room’s attention. Step close and the abstract bloom washes over you like a tide that muffles sound and swallows horizon whole.
Every fleeting frame becomes a starting point for life itself.
The motion is the clock-hand; the traces are moments you happen to catch. In that overlap of motion and stillness, the photograph becomes a timepiece that whispers time is always now.
Digital photo(shop) manipulation is not part of my creative process. Creation of the image happens in-camera.
Denis shares his life between New York City and Paris. Away from photographing, he plays saxophone and writes fiction.
Flowers courtesy of Zezé Flowers.
Denis Vlasov (b.1973) grew up in the Soviet Union and emigrated to the United States in 1991. He earned a degree in Economics at Upsala College in New Jersey, graduating in 1995.
After time in finance, Denis decided to pursue his passion for photography, working alongside renowned photographers like Steven Klein and Bruce Weber.
Inspired, he sought to apply what he learned to his artistic endeavors. Denis’ editorial photography appeared in the Interview Magazine, Vogue Italy, New York Times, AD, Rizzoli Publications.
The Flowers project started unintentionally when Zezé, of Zezé Flowers in New York, gave Denis a single White Anemone, setting way to artistic collaboration between the legendary flower-designer and the photographer.
Ten years on, Denis had developed a sensitivity to the poetics of flowers, where he sees each bloom as a cosmic event. Photographing flowers is part of his mindfulness practice.