Photographic diary (April)
Portraits and summer light
The light had entered the stage where the light during the day is too bright to be used. But as soon as the sun leaves our sight, I like to call it “Dying of the light.” This dying light is the most beautiful soft light that always seems to leave too quickly. This month, I took portraits of Bente with this kind of light during our portrait session. I looked up from my camera and was amazed by how the light landed on her skin while she was resting her head on the table.
If the circumstances are perfect, that same dying light is seen on the top of gentle waves. The back of the wave catches the last glimmers of light, and with the waves, it ends up on the shore, ending the day. The more I take photographs, the more I understand that light is ever changing, yet it is always the same. Light is close to life. Perhaps all my work is just a love letter to light.
For a project I am working on, I need the opposite of light; I need the night and its darkness. Light brings comfort; the dark doesn’t. Our instinct kicks in, preparing us for what is in this unknown. The project I am talking about requires me to go out in this unknown in complete darkness with my only weapons the camera and a flashlight. Wandering in empty dark fields, my adrenaline kicks in. I am more focused, all the sounds are more noticeable than when its day. Within these fields, I am accompanied by animals, cat’s eyes are glowing in my flashlight, I believe they too are on their own adventure. Hares run in front of my bike, and a deer runs through the field. It all has a sort of addictiveness to it. In this moment, the world feels mine, no one to bother me, just me and my camera.
I picked up two books this month.
Pentimenti by Stephan van Fleteren and Martine Gosselink
Artwork being a rich inside to a life long carrier as an artist working with the medium photograhpy. Highly recommend to photographers and artists a like.
Pentimenti is an exhibition with a complementary book with a letter between a museum director and the artist in question. It discusses photograhpy and painting and its relationship as the exhibition is a dialogue between the two. This is a topic that interests me deeply. A topic I want to write about in the near future.
Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy
The month of April.
What: Tree
Where: Workum, Friesland
What: Portrait of Bente
Where: Daylight Atelier, Leeuwarden
What: Last bit of daylight riding the back of the wave.
Where: Ijsselmeer, Workum
What: Portrait of Bente
Where: Daylight Atelier, Leeuwarden
What: Shadow self portrait with Anna Jente
Where: Workum, Friesland
What: Cityscape
Where: Leeuwarden, Friesland
What: Cityscape
Where: Leeuwarden, Friesland
What: Tree at night
Where: Workum, Friesland
What: Portrait of Bente
Where: Daylight Atelier, Leeuwarden
What: Abstract nude
Where: Leeuwarden, Friesland
What: Lamb
Where: Stavoren, Friesland
What: Evening bike ride
Where: Leeuwarden, Friesland
What: Cherry blossom
Where: Workum, Friesland
What: Abstract house
Where: Workum, Friesland
What: Portrait of Anna Jente
Where: Daylight Atelier, Leeuwarden
What: Abstract tree
Where: Workum, Friesland
What: Shadow self portrait
Where: Leeuwarden, Friesland
What: Portrait of Bente
Where: Daylight Atelier, Leeuwarden
What: Self Portrait
Where: Daylight Atelier, Leeuwarden
This was my selection for April. I’ll be back next month with a new selection.
Thank you for taking a look at this month’s selection!
Have a nice day
Brent Souverein
