The Outsider
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Dates2016 - Ongoing
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Author
- Topics Portrait, Landscape, Documentary
- Location Mongolia, Mongolia
These images speak of another place, almost imagined but certainly real – one in which community still is a thing, and life reveals itself with nature, not apart.
The wind has turned and all is still now. Over there in the distance, old mountains hang their silent watch. Past, present, future – all of them are written here, and none. A lightness of being envelopes us; the audience, the seer and the seen. With profound honesty and a rare tenderness of vision, John Feely asks us into his narrative as it unfolds, insisting we look deeply and feel a kind of peace. What emerges from The Outsider, his longform work made in Mongolia, is a withdrawal from the worldly world. These images speak of another place, almost imagined but certainly real – one in which community still is a thing, and life reveals itself with nature, not apart.
Text by Katrin Koenning