D! - Between Heartbeats by Hosea Benjamin
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Medium: photography
Dimensions: 28 x 20 in
Edition production year: 2019
Edition of 10
Price: $380.00 USD
Status: available
Between the heartbeats, death arrives—soft as shadow, sure as night. No scream, only the hush of something uncertainly certain. The ground does not tremble, yet it knows. In the stillness, the air holds its breath. Life slips unseen, and the world turns between heartbeats.
Why collect this work?
A tightly folded body is presented without a stable ground or upright axis, making bodily recognition immediate while leaving the figure’s condition and spatial position unresolved.
- Hosea Benjamin describes his practice as exploring memory, identity, and culture through photography. Here, identity remains embodied but partial, carried by pose, adornment, and an obscured face rather than narrative setting.
- In the supplied image, bent limbs form an angular circuit around the torso. The sideways head and surrounding darkness suspend the figure between a deliberate pose, a fall, and weightless drift.
- The documented photographic medium fixes an instant that the title places “Between Heartbeats.” Low tonal separation in the image reduces depth cues, allowing the body to approach abstraction without losing its human specificity.
- Dated 2019 and catalogued at 28 by 20 inches, the work sharpens a central question in figure photography: how orientation and visibility can determine whether a body reads as portrait, symbol, or form.
About the Artist
Hosea Benjamin
Hosea Benjamin is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: photography. Based in Lekki, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My work explores memory, identity, and culture through Afrography, a philosophy I created to document African stories with depth and intention.
