Schadenfreude

Human Noir

It is everywhere, Black Humour. Diabolic humour and the grotesque are very close to each other. Mikhail Bakhtin often talks about the suppressed laughter in modern culture. Things can be laughed about but not openly; the fact that the laughter is not open gives it a sinister, neurotic, bitter and ironic quality. A kind of mannerist laughter. I know that there is a kind of suppressed laughter running through my photos, even though I am not sure when things are funny. Perhaps something that I call Human noir. But this is not the same as the comic, although it includes the comic; it can be present even when nobody seems to be laughing.