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 30

Desvelando Gaudí 012

Desvelando Gaudí 013

Alabama Street. From the series Lost in transition

Atlanta high museum

Atlanta skyline

Peachtree Street

Plaza and viaduct

Untitled #5.

Untitled #4

But still punk

Ham Lands

Honey Moon

Salisbury Plain

West Of The Day II

You are a story

Glasto II

Sweet Night

Stay A While

Faces In The Crowd II

Her-Untitled 9

Miss Guy, NYC

Tabboo! (Stephen Tasjian), NYC

Lavinia Co-op, NYC.

Dorian Corey, Wigstock, NYC

Kabuki Starshine, Wigstock, NYC

Lady Bunny, Wigstock, NYC

The Ides of March (Diptych), n.d.

Girlfriend, Portfolio of 9 photographs

Keeper of the Forest

The Crossing

Gefjun

Bewitched

Shield Maiden, II

Shiel Maiden, I

Shield Maiden, III

Birka

Quiet Singer

Poem Country

Perfect Body

Old Calendar

Nightjar

Manger

Making The Moon

Iris

Chinese Interior #20

Chinese Interior #48

Chinese Interior #36

Chinese Interior #63

Le temps des chapeaux

Les pigeons

Le pied dé

108, de la série Baltique

Her-Untitled 4

Her-Untitled 1

Her-Untitled 2

Her-Untitled 8

Still life with Books and a Dark Blue Opalina Vase, Antwerp (Large)

Still life with an Opalina Vase and Two Pink Tulips, Antwerp (Large)

Opalina, Portfolio of 9 photographs

Still Life with a Broken Egg, Antwerp

Still Life with a Metal Torso, Paris

Still Life, Portfolio of 8 photographs

Vaettir

Below the surface

Rome