“Dream Collector” series, American photographer Arthur Tress tapped into
the immense emotional power present in our childhood dreams and turned
it into a gripping series of surreal photographs.
What makes these photographs, which
Tress shot in the 1960s and 70s, even more compelling is the fact that
they are based on children’s actual nightmares. “Dreams or
nightmares were collected by conversations with children in schools,
streets, or neighbourhood playgrounds. The children would be asked means
of acting out their visions or to suggest ways of making them into
visual actualities… These inventions often reflect the child’s inner
life, his hopes and fears, as well as his symbolic transmutation of the
external environment, his home or school, into manageable forms.”
Check out these psychoanalytic photos and see if they don’t remind you of any of your childhood dreams (or nightmares…).
