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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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

Dry Beauty 003

Amapola 002

Red tulip 002

The Essence of Life 003

The Essence of Life 002

The Essence of Life 001

The Petal of your Skin 003

Dry beauty 002

Dry beauty 001

Amapola 004

Amapola 001

Passion en chambre noire

Lyana au miroir

The life (La vie)

Whispers of love and light

Midday Spécial

Le Volleyeur

C'est super, Je t'aime

God waits for his unfoldment in men

Blue transportation

Lovers (Amants)

Demain, mon rêve d'aujourd'hui, Paris

L'Homme Seul, Paris

C'est ici que j'ai perdu mes contours

Laminariales XVIII Cyanotype photographs.

Laminariales XIII. From the series Bosque. Cyanotype Artwork

Laminariales VIII. From the series Bosque. Cyanotype Photograph

Laminariales III

28° 14' 22.942'' N, 114° 6' 4.129'' W-12

28° 14' 22.942'' N, 114° 6' 4.129'' W-6

27° 42' 26.32'' N, 7° 42' 26.32'' W-15

Poem Country

Old Calendar

Golden Storm

Iris

Rock And Ice

Manger

Rhyme II

California Poppy

Temple II

Every Song

Muay Thai

Untitled

Smoke of Love

Forest Portal

Goran

Set of 5 Cyanotype photograhs from the series Mareas

Gaudí 028

La Esencia de la Vida 06

Eucalipto 02

Iris 02

Desvelando Gaudí 07

Desvelando Gaudí 09

Ciclamen 05

The Death of a Flower 002

The Death of a Flower 008

Consolation