“A black- and- white abstract dystopian photograph captured with a cinema- grade 12mm fisheye lens, offering a warped, immersive perspective that distorts reality. The close- up portrait of a rugged 50- year- old rural man shows his face fragmented into disjointed rectangular sections, with his eyes, nose, mouth, and skin displaced in chaotic randomness. Within the fractured gaps, oversized cockroaches, with vivid green and orange hues contrasting against the monochrome, crawl and writhe. Their shiny, textured bodies and twitching legs pop against the stark black- and- white, intensifying the grotesque feeling. Scrawled across the scene in decayed, rotten lettering, the phrase ‘FREE PROTEINS’ oozes in a murky, decaying shade of green, further enhancing the unsettling tone. The chiaroscuro lighting casts deep shadows, highlighting the contrasting colors of the cockroaches and the dissonant mood, making the entire composition feel even more surreal and nightmarish. ”
