Songs For Sorrow by Benjamin Ong (May 16, 2010) 
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Benjamin Ong was recommended to us by Zorica Purlija. Zorica writes: Ben’s haunting, and very beautiful work resonates a chord within me with the work I like to produce. The beauty, sadness and ecstasy is a universal truth which I also like to explore. Ben’s work stands out to me as an original statement with his own unique style, a true artist.
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“Indeed the idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this world much wrong, have drowned my glory in a shallow cup, and sold my reputation for a Song.“
Songs for Sorrow is inspired by the works of Omay Khayyam, an 11th Century poet, astronomer and philosopher.
Abandoning any notion of the photograph as a document of the real, each work is a visual performance; a visual fable that finds it’s truth in imaginative resonance rather than hard evidence.
Recurrent in my work is the sandwiching of negatives and the use of inscription and scratching within the image itself.
The textural effect created represents the dreamy nature of the subconscious.
Whilst these images appear to explore darker themes, they aim to become a mixture of the extraordinarily beautiful and the frightening.
Benjamin Ong is represented by Tim Olsen Gallery.
Benjamin Ong (1982) lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
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it has a gloomy mood,
still it’ are beautiful photo’ s.