Passionate about experimental and portrait photography, Hungarian photographer Madhava Kalmar has worked to combine them in a project called ’Stone and Silver’where he prints black and white photographs onto stones.
Kalmar, a 22-year-old photography student from the University of Brighton, started the ‘Stone and Silver’ project after experimenting on trying to print on rocks. The printing process is “quite complicated”, but Kalmar feels that “it’s worth it”.
Through ‘Stone and Silver’, Kalmar explores human identity. He said, “Identity has always been a human need. We identify ourselves even without knowing it, our clothes, hairstyle, language speaks for itself, they show where we belong”.
“I think a person has many identities, but there is a core where these statuses come from, which can not be explained by single words”.
“The stone is one of the most ancient materials of the earth, and have always been used by people to express themselves, from rock painting to contemporary sculptures. Every stone is unique, it forms slowly by the power of nature, just as our core identity does and it also has a story just as we have”.
Visit Kalmar’s website to view more of his work.
[via PetaPixel]