As we all know, sadness is an emotional pain associated with or
characterised by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief,
helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. Indeed, sadness is one of the
basic human emotions we are born with, and this feeling will accompany
us during our most proving times. Nonetheless, if fate is gracious to
us, we will get to experience it only in rare moments during our whole
life. In his series, «Sad seconds», Norbert Farkas tries to capture
moments of everyday life in which sadness is felt as an individual
emotion, with personal obligations and exclusive reactions. Going
through the project, from the first image to the latter, we could
almost taste such sense of discomfort he is trying to convey in his
pictures. We could awkwardly be walking alongside kissing lovers, or
witnessing the un/settling view of spilt sauce on a supermarket’s
floor.
«Sad seconds» is a journey in everyone’s life, a collection of images
taken to represent the distress we experience daily and we fail to
notice and record. If the odds are in his favour, he takes the picture
for all of us.