A sombra como sujeito
Algumas reflexões sobre usar a escuridão como aquilo de que trata a fotografia, não como algo a superar.
— Imagem 01, various interiors. Disparado em Tri-X 400 at 800.
For a long time I treated shadow as a problem — a thing to expose around, fill with bounce, push the film to recover. Then I had a conversation with a painter, in a kitchen in Galloway, who pointed at a painting on her wall and said, calmly, 'the shadow is the subject. The light is what tells you about the shadow.' I have been thinking about that sentence for two years.
“The shadow is the subject. The light is what tells you about the shadow.”
Photographically this is a small change in framing and an enormous change in what gets photographed. Once you stop trying to rescue the shadow you start composing for it.
Three working rules
One: meter the brightest part of the scene that has detail you care about, and let the rest fall. Two: in a room with one window, the picture is almost always between the window and the wall. Three: if the shadow has texture in it, that texture is the subject.
Fotógrafo baseado entre Lisboa e Berlim. Novos ensaios surgem cerca de uma vez por mês.