Existential - Picturing the questions {and vice versa}

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To quote the stranger: "at that moment I realized I could shoot or not shoot." Guns or cameras, the choice is the same.

Photos/artworks that evoke existential questions. Photos that examine the place of people in our modern world. What is existentialism and how do you picture it?

Appropriate subjects: the individual in vast space, modern anonymity, doubling, eternal recurrance, choice, identity, out of place/time, alienation, entanglement, dissolution

Here's a few guidelines I've developed:

1) no psychedellics. this is existentialism. you can argue that psychedellics question the nature of existence, but they present an extremely internalized state. Man no longer in the world, but in himself, getting lost in the exloding unfolding &c.

2) I will remove work that doesn't seem to be examining existential questions (especially if there's a lot of it). In a sense everything can be existential if it's about the individual in the arbitrary universe. Think Camus, Manchette, Melville, Sartre, Nietzsche.

I removed some lovely work because in its totality it seemed more scattershot than poignant.

Thanks for all the good works that have been added. It's fascinating stuff. I just want to keep things focused.