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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Gaudí 028
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
€800
La Esencia de la Vida 06
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
Eucalipto 02
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€600
Iris 02
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€600
Desvelando Gaudí 07
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
Desvelando Gaudí 09
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
Ciclamen 05
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
The Death of a Flower 002
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€600
The Death of a Flower 008
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€600
Desvelando Gaudí 015
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€400
Darknees 1
Cécile Baldewyns
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.25 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Ciclamen 04
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
Ciclamen 03
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
God waits for his unfoldment in men
Sofia Alazraki
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€549
Big wheel Osaka
Cécile Baldewyns
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€850
Salisbury Plain
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€465
Latin tradewife
Sofia Alazraki
Photography - 110 x 86 x 0.2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 33.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,646
Softest Place
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
€2,180
Silbury Hill
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
€2,180
Old Calendar
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,180
Making The Moon
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
€2,180
High And Wild
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,180
Quiet Singer
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,180
Perfect Body
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€1,550
You are a story
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,550
Green Candle
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,550
Every Song II
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,550
West Of The Day II
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,295
You Are A Story
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,295
Softest Place
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
€1,295
High And Wild
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€930
Faces In The Crowd II
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€930
Every song II
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€930
Green Candle
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.001 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,200
