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Introduction. On March 25, 2019, as a part of the Photojournalism university project, we started making a series of photographs under the theme “5 o’clock in the afternoon”. Every day for 6 weeks - 42 days - we took one photo at 5 o’clock in the afternoon (or actually in the evening?), at a place where we were at that moment, and posted it on Twitter until 6 p.m. for project documentation, writing a text for it. 5 o’clock in the afternoon - it’s the middle of the day of ordinary people who begin their day around 8-9 o’clock in the morning. It is a transition. It is neither evening nor day. It is the end of the working time and the beginning of the evening and free time. 5 o’clock is the twilight. It is like a border. It is like a time horizon. It is the line where day and evening meet, morning coffee and evening coffee, light and darkness, beginning and end have get together. It’s the transition border. It is a point where the antipodes meet. I take a step from one to another. The horizon is the motive for my pictures. The line dividing the picture into two equal halves. Which spatial horizon do I meet in the temporal horizon, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon? What happens in the environment? Which horizon do I have today? What do I think in the middle of the day? 4
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The horizon line comes deliberately 1/2 through the images (not as in classical composition 1/3 or 2/3), dividing the recording on two equal half: lower part and upper part. As a text to the pictures, I used my own quotations or a stream of thoughts. These were phrases that arose to me in the middle of the day. Often at 5 p.m. I really wanted to sleep, so the phrases were sometimes very absurd and meaningless, or neutral, or philosophical. They reflect the reality in which I lived - my projects, moving the university building, my travels in this period of time, the joy of the first picture sold. 5-hour phrases are like a string, weakly or strongly stretched. It’s like a single line, blurry or sharp, like a terminator. “I take a stop. I look around. I see the horizon. It means I walk in the right direction. ” Alice Matern, Linz 2019
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# 1. Hello! What do you do at 5 o’clock in the afternoon?
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# 2. What is your horizon today? What do you see, when you look to the future?
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# 3. What is more: top or bottom? <ceilings reflections>
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# 4. The city is drowning in the waves of aloe vera.
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# 5. Lovely spaces are always light.
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# 6. A half day behind.
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# 7. Danube II. I’m looking for the border of inconceivability.
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# 8. It’s 5 o’clock. Just look around.
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# 9. Is the horizon a line?
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# 10. I expand the horizons.
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# 11. Sold! (Is not that a dream?)
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# 12. Goodbye! - Hello! Goodbye Reindlstraße! - Hello Hauptplatz! Every the end is the beginning of something new.
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# 13. Mom, take me to the village!
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# 14. I love the subjunctive mood, because I love to dream.
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# 15. Look at the moon tonight
- it is as thin as a
thread.
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# 16. Once upon I will wake up rich and famous. But now I need money for a new project, and even for four.
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# 17. All I dream about is coming true! The purpose for today is to dream!
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# 18. Someone else doesn’t know what is nettle soup in spring? Then you definitely need to come to visit me!
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# 19. What do you see when you close your eyes?
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# 20. Today without words. May I be silent for a while.
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# 21. There is no the Internet in the air. Absolute silence. An altitude of 11,000 meters, a temperature of -55 degrees Celsius. The flight is normal. Today is the equator. We continue to move on.
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# 22. Find the skyline in the city of high-rise buildings.
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# 23. Do you remember the moment when most people on the planet began to live in cities?
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# 24. Somewhere 5 o’clock already happened, and we are still waiting.
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# 25. Dining True.
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# 26. Goodbye city of contrasts! You give me a lot.
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# 27. Terminator isn’t a robot, it is a moving line that separates the illuminated side and the dark side of a planetary body .
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# 28. To be free does not mean that you have no borders, to be free is to be able to arrange them correctly.
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# 29. How great that there are colors besides black and white. Especially that there is green.
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# 30. I did not tell you about the future time as I promised.
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# 31. Eva was here.
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# 32. My bridge is being built.
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# 33. The Walking Dead?
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# 34. On the moon there is no twilight. When the sun sets, it immediately becomes dark.
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# 35. Today the walk only deep into yourself. I treat a spine from carrying a heavy bag with a camera. And you thought to be an artist - is it easy? What is behind all the visible?
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# 36. The dandelion field after the rain is the most beautiful thing that happens in the cool period of spring.
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# 37. Look, I have with me a suitcase with a drill, a heavy bag with screen printing materials, a backpack with a camera, apples and bananas for lunch... I am riding a bicycle. And I already dream of a bicycle trailer. I’m really very lucky with the university!
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# 38. The city center is beautiful but I love to live on the outskirts.
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# 39. Every day be faster, stronger, better than yesterday.
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# 40. What is a “borderline case”?
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# 41. When you stand at the equator you don’t feel it. When a terminator passes through you, you don’t observe it.
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# 42. Borders are conditional. One goes into the other. Step is the most important. What will happen when you turn this page?
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Conclusion Thank you for a participation in the project: Professor Gerhard Umhaller, the leader of the project, Ilya Boytsov, proof-reading and support, Ivan Djikaev, proof-reading.
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