Project:
“Now, Flowers!”
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 take on classic study, a flower slips its form; one slow shutter glide turns petals into a rushing wave of color.
Meditation on movement: each photograph holds one unrepeatable exhale - impermanence made visible; time seems to lack the aspect of coming and going.
Through the lens comes an invitation to witness the intimacy of flowers expanding into bloom.
Ultimately, we are a life force that continuously evolves and manifests. Therefore, we are able to question everything around us because everything in and around us is constantly changing. Hence, to emphasize time as the immediate present and not to see the world so much as things but as processes.
The present moment is where we start all over again - every fleeting frame becomes a starting point for life itself.
In the overlap of motion and stillness, the photograph reveals that 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.