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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Dark photographic compositions

Poem Country

Perfect Body

Old Calendar

Nightjar

Manger

Making The Moon

Iris

Chinese Interior #20

Chinese Interior #48

Chinese Interior #36

Chinese Interior #63

108, de la série Baltique

Vaettir

Below the surface

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.

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Rome

Last Day

Peace

Mingus

Vape on a train

Two faced

Seth

Semo

Homework

Lunachicks

Her-Untitled 4

Her-Untitled 1

Her-Untitled 2

Her-Untitled 8

Chinese Interior #2

Chinese Interior #11

Chinese Interior #16

Chinese Interior #19

106, de la série Baltique

105, de la série Baltique

103, de la série "Baltique"

Boîte n°42, de la série "Les Bouquinistes"

Le rêveur, de la série "Les Bouquinistes"

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Portrait de sculpteurs du Musée des Sables

Portrait MOON SHIN

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MOON SHIN Portait dans sculpture blanche

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Grossert 3 - Musée des Sables Barcarés

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

Opalina, Portfolio of 9 photographs

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Still Life with a Metal Torso, Paris

Still Life, Portfolio of 8 photographs

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