Dark photographic compositions

Highlighting the darkness. It seems almost like an oxymoron, but in photography certain techniques can do just that. Much like darker tones found in painting, dark photographic compositions can echo melancholy, somberness or loneliness – whether that is in a dimly lit nightscape or a densely packed crowd void of light in the urban landscape. Both black and white and color photography can create dark compositions, playing with the hues of browns, black and grays that emerge within photographic processes. By using contrast to highlight a subject, such as an item, gaze, or outline, it might suggest a dark emotion or feeling of loneliness, danger and even intimacy and adventure. In Artsper's own selection of works, Christophe Dabreau notes that he observes his subjects and attempts to “bring to light" a view hidden in shadow. Whilst Cécile Baldewyns' work aims to tell stories and reveal secrets of her desires and sorrow through dark compositions. Though her work has been deemed both sensual and disturbing, isn't the foreboding and dramatic nature of dark tones the perfect setting for it?

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Untitled #7. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

Cooling Tour

Red Tulip 005

West of the way

A Chick

La Femme Rousse

Others

Butch Chanel: John, Robert and Michael, NYC

Consolation

Set of 3 Photographs. Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves

Les Friches 05

Skull

Carré Bleu sur Jaune Vert Bleu

Mar II

Carnegie Library/ Atlanta-Fulton county public library

Minoru KANO 1975

Hit by a bus

Le rond de dés

Chinese Interior #1

Wheight on their shoulders

Vagabondages 12

L1000247 1

Tenerife, Anaga Forest

The infinity games

Glimpse

Elis

Pecado

Sana

Insouciance

Cemetry

Silbury Hill

Raining

La chambre verte

Gaudí 014

The Petal of her Skin 001

Rebirth

Desvelando Gaudí 010

Les fleurs respirent la nuit

Red transportation

B comme body

Jupe

La Esencia de la Vida 07

Reconnais qu'il y a toujours une inconnue

Circus

Fairy

Set of 2 Photographs. Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves

Desvelando Gaudí 08

Stairs

Fonster

The Petal of your Skin 004

Algas 45-XIX

Desvelando Gaudí 02

Disorder

The Shimmering

Still Life with Tulips and 5 Opalina Vases, Antwerp

The Death of a Flower 006

The Life Cycle of a Tulip 004

The Life Cycle of a Tulip 003

The Life Cycle of a Chrysanthemum 006

The Life Cycle of a Chrysanthemum 004

Amapola 003

Red Tulip 003

The Death of a Flower 003

The essence of life 005

Ciclamen 002

Ciclamen 001