Mark


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Unreal, smoky forms isolated in the frame are unveiled as sketches, outlining a moving body, thus becoming anonymous and timeless. These images check both boxes in my “beauty and simplicity” motto. The simplicity of stripping everything to the essentials; the beauty of serendipity. The blur between reality and the shapeless world, hidden while the camera shoots, only to be discovered later on with childish excitement.

Unlike “Viaje a la Sombra”, where the images are carefully composed and the dark tones richly render a scene or an idea, here I let the model and the camera’s shutter speed „decide“ what’s going to be the final image: charcoal-like strokes waiting to be discovered, fanciful accidents given by pure chance. I literally have no idea what I’m going to get (she’s improvising as well) and it’s a quite satisfying exercise on letting go and trusting whatever comes. It’s “time” in a picture, “space” occupied by the subject’s moving body for maybe half a second.