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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Fille Fume

Untitled #8. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

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Untitled #6. From the series There is an ocean in my glass II

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Untitled #1. From the series "There is an ocean in my glass II"

Untitled #6. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

Untitled #5. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

Untitled #4. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

Untitled #3. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

Untitled #2. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

Untitled #1. From the series There is an ocean in my glass

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Eucalipto 01

Desvelando Gaudí 014

104, de la série Baltique

Boîte n°42, 2019-2022

Mouvement

Attente

[Confiance], de la série La baltique

The Road to Kazbegi

Bangkok

La Mujer

Ciclamen 07

Silence

Silence

Evening talks (Conversations du soir)

The Garden of Wounds (Le Jardin des Blessures)

Musée des Sables

A fragile glow

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Reflection

Conscience

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Abstraction #10

Abstraction #9

Abstraction #8

Abstraction #7

Abstraction #6

Abstraction #5

Abstraction #4

Abstraction #3

Milan, the tramway

Dijon, the shadow

Vague 7

Vague 8

Vague #1

Abstraction #11

Abstraction #12

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Vagabondages 17

Vagabondages 9

Gone

Léonie

Kenza

Sweet Sarah