{"product_id":"mayflies-by-darren-smith","title":"Mayflies by Darren Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMayflies\u003c\/em\u003e brings together seven years of photographs by Amsterdam-based photographer Darren Smith, made at festivals, carnivals, and cultural gatherings across Europe, North America, and Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with a portable studio within these events, Smith creates portraits that move beyond spectacle to explore identity, ritual, and collective self-expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title refers to the mayfly, an insect that lives only briefly, compressing an entire life into a single day. For Smith, it becomes a metaphor for his subjects who spend months, often an entire year, preparing for a moment of appearance in which they fully inhabit a constructed identity, before returning to everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemoved from the surrounding intensity and placed against a simple backdrop, his subjects become precise, vulnerable, and charged by the social energy of the event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting portraits exist between document and performance, revealing identity as something crafted, inhabited, and shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"divider divider-AY1FCc1lNenorZE9IT__divider spacing-style\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"divider__line\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished December 2024\u003cbr\u003eSize: 280 x 360 mm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208, 122 images\u003cbr\u003eHardback, cloth bound cover\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-9462265332\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lecturis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63407237333322,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0078\/3859\/7233\/files\/Cover_Mayfliesbook.webp?v=1788354091","url":"https:\/\/www.polycurios.com\/products\/mayflies-by-darren-smith","provider":"Polycurios.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}