The photographic medium is capable of capturing radiant energies of the visible world, and an artist working with these elements is eminently interacting with forces unseen, seemingly, from outside of the realms of human perception. This is exactly what you feel as you peruse the work of the Estonian photographer Elvira Akzigitova. With enthusiasm and consistency she searches for a broader horizon of photographic vision.

Her key subject is light, and she has learned to capture, balance, and reflect it, both to illuminate and to mold the photographs from light itself. Once the spectacle of outside events became insufficiently inspiring, she turned to the darkroom to witness an even wider variety of visual dramas on photographic emulsion. Alternative and abstract - inward looking images - Elvira decisively replaced the humanist documentary with a display of photographs presented as optical themes in themselves.

Elvira generally shies from explaining her physical analog process of manifesting her images. She rarely rationalises about her intentions, or puts her designs into words, her fundamental longing is to prolong a little bit of her dream beyond the limits of reality. Overall, the artist claims to work better in the abyss of the unknown.