A visual essay by Matthieu Litt
Horsehead Nebula
Central Asia
A vision by Matthieu Litt
Over there, there are so many horses
they don’t even bother naming them.
This area of the Farista
wild, unknown
and so fantasied about
is a mix of beauty and harshness,
landlocked between the trenches
of the mountains.
It’s a quest for the sublime,
for distance,
but also for the imagery
and beliefs related to its pursuit.
It’s like making a waking dream come true,
like catching the feelings
of this terrestrial paradise,
where borders are as entangled
as the mountain ranges that define them.
It’s a state between imagination
and conciseness,
between the quest
and the sense of already having seen
these spaces where people are forged
by their environment.
A hesitation between mirage and the reality
of what is appearing on the horizon,
probably because we are more open
to being surprised.
Words and photography. Matthieu Litt
Traveller/s
Matthieu Litt
Photographer
Matthieu Litt is a Belgium based photographer, focussing on personal projects. In his practice, he is mainly interested in the notion of distance,
and how he can visually break and explore it, by blurring the boundaries and landmarks between an image taken in his close surroundings and another from far abroad.
@matthieulitt
