The Meaning of Life” explores identity and relationships caught up in a complex time of social media, cell phones and artificial intelligence where anxiety and insomnia are at record levels.

Grounded in practical experience and inspired by Martha Nussbaum’s book “The Fragility Of Goodness”, photographer Neil Frederick Sharpe of The Carnegie Gallery, whose work has been displayed in galleries around the world, through an exclusive dialogue of arresting, mysterious images, explores a world where people fight to maintain identity, values and grace while caught up in days that seem to aimlessly fly by, self-absorbed and disconnected, strange in their hollowness and shifting edges, haunted by memories of children’s innocence somewhere lost and an insomnia wild to ask “does any part of this makes sense?” Sharpe’s raw but dignifying photographs, enveloped in darkness and human vulnerability, not only explore these questions but also pay tribute to the paths leading home.

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