Black Holes

A Lomography series exploring isolation, vastness, and the fragile possibility of escape

Black Holes explores isolation, vastness, and the fragile possibility of escape.
Created with a simple Lomography camera, the series embraces distortion, imperfection, and chance as part of its language. The circular frames evoke both astronomical black holes and emotional states of suspension — places where orientation dissolves, and the horizon becomes uncertain.

The project was partly inspired by a lecture by Stephen Hawking, in which he spoke about black holes not as eternal prisons, but as spaces from which something might still emerge.

Across beaches, skies, and distant figures, the images move between loneliness and openness, intimacy and cosmic scale. Human presence appears small, almost swallowed by space, yet never entirely erased.

Each photograph carries its own title, functioning as fragments of a larger meditation rather than fixed explanations. The work invites viewers to drift between the images and construct their own connections — somewhere between landscape, memory, and another possible dimension.

Ingrid Wessel Bernal