Sebastian Rogowski: Suicidal Birds | LENSCRATCH

There are road trips and then there are transformative journeys that imprint on your soul and open your eyes to new vistas  filled with strange beauty. Photographer Sebastian Rogowski has created a visual diary of his travels through Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and the result is his self-published monograph, Suicidal Birds. The work includes stark landscapes with luminous blue lakes, mountains that render everything else insignificant — human life simply a momentary visitor in the histories of their existence, and totems and architecture that add to the surreal nature of these lands.  There is a melancholy beauty in these photographs that speak to place, but also offer an unspoken internal narration of self.