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Death In This Land Is Liberating
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Death In This Land Is Liberating

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My photographies are like screenshots from beautiful but cruel fairy tales. Their narrations are not straight. Images that appear are more like feelings that come during a lecture of an old folk-based story – full of witchcrafts and retributions.

The structure of my works is similar to the structure of a dream where natural tendencies of collecting and organizing impulses and motivations coincide with irrational clashes of objects and feelings.

Maybe we are not to belong to this world.

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Laura Makabresku

Laura Makabresku

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Laura Makabresku (born in 1987; lives in Krakow). Is a Polish visual artist and photographer. Her photographs are overflown with mystic symbols and the atmosphere of fairy tales.

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Laura Makabresku

Laura Makabresku

Author, Community member

Laura Makabresku (born in 1987; lives in Krakow). Is a Polish visual artist and photographer. Her photographs are overflown with mystic symbols and the atmosphere of fairy tales.

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Boop-pity-boop
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I disagree, I don't think that these are horrible, or overly sexualized and nor do they show abuse of animals. They are dark, yes, but I quite like some of them, particularly the fox and girl transfusion and the fox and girl beneath the ice. I have enjoyed looking at this collection. If they are not to your taste, so be it, but I would not call them unhinged or disturbed. They are meant to be dark and make your skin prickle looking at them. I think this photographer is talented to get the kinds of strange, vintage-feeling shots.

Maheak
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was the whole point of the post wasn't it! Glad that some people do agree with it!

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Amanda Panda
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Beautiful but cruel fairy tales" well that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Some of these pics disturbed me a bit and made me feel uncomfortable, but I guess that was the point.

John Bouas
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find them very interesting, I don't get the hate. Not everything should be fluffy funny and cheerful.Everyone has a dark side and if you don't have one you must be a really boring person.

Gothilocks
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely love this photography! It's just gorgeous and I suppose people will just interpret it how they do- but all the same, it's art and it's just beautiful.

Gothilocks
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know you are all entitled to your opinions, and that's completely fine with me and I understand that some of you might not like this- but it'd do you all well to remember that if somebody created it, it's art. If you don't like it, that doesn't make it any less artistic or powerful...

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Iris Wisteria
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I honestly have never seen such a disrespectful comment in my life. Art is art, and no matter what you do you cannot change that

DieFledermaus
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That person may be artistic....but not any less psychologically disturbed.

Relle M.
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seeing these images and all I could think of is that "I'm home". They speak to my soul and I rejoice.

Sandy Birkholz
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have an amazing imagination and a truly intuitive way of producing photographic art. These are really very, very good pieces of art, and I salute you!!

robbie2499
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely find the photo of the red haired girl cradling what appears to be a fox visually stunning and oddly safe.

Saundra Coleman
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find these photos quite stunning. In particular, the red haired girl cradling what appears to be a fox. I find the photo gives me a feeling of being safe and secure in the unknown.

Celeste Spaniel
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever thinks this is b********y needs to get their eyes checked! The body is only sexualised by society. No clothes does not equal sex!

Stuart Bulman
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wonderful work Laura, unsettling as great art should be. I would be interested in your technical process?

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Art's not abuot funny and fluffy stuff, sometimes it will make you uncomfortable and unsure... It makes me sad how many people are critisizing this pictures just because they don't understand them. If you don't get something that doesn't mean that the creator is mentaly disturbed, you know? It makes me really wonder how some of you guys would react on art of Damien Hirst, for example...

Frank Johnson
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are all excellent, seems a shame you don't put your unique and exceptional talent towards uplifting and positive subject matter. The world is sad and dark enough don't you think?

Jenny Farmer Melton
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are gorgeous. Dark, but beautiful. Thank you for sharing them with us, Laura Makabresku.

robbie2499
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find these photos stunning. In particular, the red haired girl cradling what looks to be a fox. I find it visually lovely and (oddly) safe. The fact there is a iv type line running from one to the other is also lovely.

Tash Stuart
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fantastic ...! I remembered a dream when I woke a few mornings ago and it had a similar feeling to it as I got from some of your pictures...

Franco Elias
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was in bed 4 hours ago seeking God. I was bogged down telling the creator life is an illusion. I asked him why do we feel lonely, I asked him can you cure diabetes and cancer...then all of a sudden I saw black trees that were barren, like a barren woman that can't have children and I saw a woman with black hair and a black dress in this environment of barreness...and then my attention came upon her cupping her hands and a beautiful bird of many colors was flying and floating like a humming bird in flight....fast forward 4 hours I come to your sight---whatever is not born in anguish can not live...your fotos are not cruel or upsetting...they call us to anguish over our own existence and reality...I am really happy I found this site....things make sense now in this maddening world we live in????

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Art is not about sweet ilustrations and funny kittens, it sometimes leaves you disturbed. I find it really sad that so many people are critisizimg this pictures just because they don't understand them, or they are feeling uncomfortable with them. If you don't understand something it doesn't make it's less of an art piece, and it doesn't mean thar the creator is mentaly disturbed... It makes me really wonder how some of you guys would react on art of Damien Hirst...

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Art is not about fluffy kittens and funny drawings - sometimes is about making the viewer uncomfortable. It's really sad, that so many people are critisizing this pictures, just because they do not understand them. You know, if you don't get something this doesny mean that the creator of it is mentaly disturbed, right? Makes me wonder how some of you guys would react on art of Damien Hirst, for example.

Susan Lantz
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I disagree as well. Not everything is meant to be seen by everyone. Death especially for human beings should be private. Between their families and God.

Boone Tibbitts
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously this is f****d up. Who the f**k decides they want to go do a photoshoot with them naked and a bunch of taxidermy animals?

Sass Lord
Community Member
8 years ago

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Okay there's female nipples in it, 18 or older!!!!! It's not like most girls already have breasts when they're 13!!!!!!!! You disappoint me sometimes, Bored Panda.

Emma Ramshaw
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8 years ago

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Appropriately titled, I guess. I think I'd rather die than live in a land where b********y is passed off as 'art'. Fortunately, I believe most people can see this for what it is: a mediocre photographer trying to get noticed by going for shock value to compensate for her lack of talent. FFS get a real job, and do something constructive with your life.

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm really sorry, but who are you to tell other people what to do with their lives? Photographer is a real job. I'm and illustrator myself, and it makes me sick whan people are telling me to gest "a real job". If you're making many out of it this is your job. All of us don't have to work in corporations, you know?

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Yvonne Bernal
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8 years ago

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I have to wonder why Bored Panda lowered themselves to even post something like this. Surely you don't need this type of viewer. I'm glad my dreams don't look at all like this. If my Psych classes were correct, that photographer is somewhat on the disturbed & unhinged side of life. Mislabeled if ever there was one.... more like "Animal Erotica vs. Beastality".

Julie Julie
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why should it always be about fluffy kittens and funny tweets? This is art. There is no such thing as "normal" and artists should not be expected to be politically correct or mainstream. Everybody has their own darkness inside, it is the privilege of an artists to be able to express it freely. It is your freedom to dislike it, but it doesn't take away from the photos. It is dark, and shows something that make us feel uncomfortable. That is the power of art.

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Angela Genth
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8 years ago

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This is disgusting. Why is Bored Panda posting such a horrible stuff.This photographer is a disturbed person and belongs in therapy.

Boop-pity-boop
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I disagree, I don't think that these are horrible, or overly sexualized and nor do they show abuse of animals. They are dark, yes, but I quite like some of them, particularly the fox and girl transfusion and the fox and girl beneath the ice. I have enjoyed looking at this collection. If they are not to your taste, so be it, but I would not call them unhinged or disturbed. They are meant to be dark and make your skin prickle looking at them. I think this photographer is talented to get the kinds of strange, vintage-feeling shots.

Maheak
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was the whole point of the post wasn't it! Glad that some people do agree with it!

Load More Replies...
Amanda Panda
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Beautiful but cruel fairy tales" well that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Some of these pics disturbed me a bit and made me feel uncomfortable, but I guess that was the point.

John Bouas
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find them very interesting, I don't get the hate. Not everything should be fluffy funny and cheerful.Everyone has a dark side and if you don't have one you must be a really boring person.

Gothilocks
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely love this photography! It's just gorgeous and I suppose people will just interpret it how they do- but all the same, it's art and it's just beautiful.

Gothilocks
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know you are all entitled to your opinions, and that's completely fine with me and I understand that some of you might not like this- but it'd do you all well to remember that if somebody created it, it's art. If you don't like it, that doesn't make it any less artistic or powerful...

Load More Replies...
Iris Wisteria
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I honestly have never seen such a disrespectful comment in my life. Art is art, and no matter what you do you cannot change that

DieFledermaus
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That person may be artistic....but not any less psychologically disturbed.

Relle M.
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seeing these images and all I could think of is that "I'm home". They speak to my soul and I rejoice.

Sandy Birkholz
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have an amazing imagination and a truly intuitive way of producing photographic art. These are really very, very good pieces of art, and I salute you!!

robbie2499
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely find the photo of the red haired girl cradling what appears to be a fox visually stunning and oddly safe.

Saundra Coleman
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find these photos quite stunning. In particular, the red haired girl cradling what appears to be a fox. I find the photo gives me a feeling of being safe and secure in the unknown.

Celeste Spaniel
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever thinks this is b********y needs to get their eyes checked! The body is only sexualised by society. No clothes does not equal sex!

Stuart Bulman
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wonderful work Laura, unsettling as great art should be. I would be interested in your technical process?

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Art's not abuot funny and fluffy stuff, sometimes it will make you uncomfortable and unsure... It makes me sad how many people are critisizing this pictures just because they don't understand them. If you don't get something that doesn't mean that the creator is mentaly disturbed, you know? It makes me really wonder how some of you guys would react on art of Damien Hirst, for example...

Frank Johnson
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are all excellent, seems a shame you don't put your unique and exceptional talent towards uplifting and positive subject matter. The world is sad and dark enough don't you think?

Jenny Farmer Melton
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are gorgeous. Dark, but beautiful. Thank you for sharing them with us, Laura Makabresku.

robbie2499
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find these photos stunning. In particular, the red haired girl cradling what looks to be a fox. I find it visually lovely and (oddly) safe. The fact there is a iv type line running from one to the other is also lovely.

Tash Stuart
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fantastic ...! I remembered a dream when I woke a few mornings ago and it had a similar feeling to it as I got from some of your pictures...

Franco Elias
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was in bed 4 hours ago seeking God. I was bogged down telling the creator life is an illusion. I asked him why do we feel lonely, I asked him can you cure diabetes and cancer...then all of a sudden I saw black trees that were barren, like a barren woman that can't have children and I saw a woman with black hair and a black dress in this environment of barreness...and then my attention came upon her cupping her hands and a beautiful bird of many colors was flying and floating like a humming bird in flight....fast forward 4 hours I come to your sight---whatever is not born in anguish can not live...your fotos are not cruel or upsetting...they call us to anguish over our own existence and reality...I am really happy I found this site....things make sense now in this maddening world we live in????

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Art is not about sweet ilustrations and funny kittens, it sometimes leaves you disturbed. I find it really sad that so many people are critisizimg this pictures just because they don't understand them, or they are feeling uncomfortable with them. If you don't understand something it doesn't make it's less of an art piece, and it doesn't mean thar the creator is mentaly disturbed... It makes me really wonder how some of you guys would react on art of Damien Hirst...

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Art is not about fluffy kittens and funny drawings - sometimes is about making the viewer uncomfortable. It's really sad, that so many people are critisizing this pictures, just because they do not understand them. You know, if you don't get something this doesny mean that the creator of it is mentaly disturbed, right? Makes me wonder how some of you guys would react on art of Damien Hirst, for example.

Susan Lantz
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I disagree as well. Not everything is meant to be seen by everyone. Death especially for human beings should be private. Between their families and God.

Boone Tibbitts
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously this is f****d up. Who the f**k decides they want to go do a photoshoot with them naked and a bunch of taxidermy animals?

Sass Lord
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Okay there's female nipples in it, 18 or older!!!!! It's not like most girls already have breasts when they're 13!!!!!!!! You disappoint me sometimes, Bored Panda.

Emma Ramshaw
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Appropriately titled, I guess. I think I'd rather die than live in a land where b********y is passed off as 'art'. Fortunately, I believe most people can see this for what it is: a mediocre photographer trying to get noticed by going for shock value to compensate for her lack of talent. FFS get a real job, and do something constructive with your life.

anna k
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm really sorry, but who are you to tell other people what to do with their lives? Photographer is a real job. I'm and illustrator myself, and it makes me sick whan people are telling me to gest "a real job". If you're making many out of it this is your job. All of us don't have to work in corporations, you know?

Load More Replies...
Yvonne Bernal
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

I have to wonder why Bored Panda lowered themselves to even post something like this. Surely you don't need this type of viewer. I'm glad my dreams don't look at all like this. If my Psych classes were correct, that photographer is somewhat on the disturbed & unhinged side of life. Mislabeled if ever there was one.... more like "Animal Erotica vs. Beastality".

Julie Julie
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why should it always be about fluffy kittens and funny tweets? This is art. There is no such thing as "normal" and artists should not be expected to be politically correct or mainstream. Everybody has their own darkness inside, it is the privilege of an artists to be able to express it freely. It is your freedom to dislike it, but it doesn't take away from the photos. It is dark, and shows something that make us feel uncomfortable. That is the power of art.

Load More Replies...
Angela Genth
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

This is disgusting. Why is Bored Panda posting such a horrible stuff.This photographer is a disturbed person and belongs in therapy.

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