light experiments
‘Light Experiments’ is a short series realised entirely with flash over the course of 3 months in winter 2024/25. Born from my desire to play with artificial light to cut through the dullness of winter in London, this series is the result of many trials and experimentations with a technology that I have yet to master. Flash can be difficult, moody, unpredictable - it felt at times that I was learning to photograph all over again.
In broad daylight, my images take on a hyper-realist twist, giving a whitish yellow look to random subjects in the street, making them stand out in all their reality against a darker, more subdued background. At night, flash takes over any ambient light around, creating a unique atmosphere. Playing with light trails at low speed, its gives my subjects surrealist looks, frozen in time, while the surrounding light trailes down around them.
This series presented here is the result from these early experimentations with my Leica M240, containing photographs that are paradoxically either hyper-realist or surrealist under the whitish, unforgiving flash light.
