There are two photographs that have really stuck out for me in the last few weeks (having looked at many) while thinking about light and how it's used by photographers. In both these images the light is not softened and there is no attempt to create a pretty picture; vanity and softening old skin are not the aim here, nor are there any suggestions of a romanticised, pictorial reality. Instead the contrast is harsh and the photographers have both not only utilised this fact but instead made even more of it, hiding parts of the scene in darkness while other parts are still visible. I have thought a lot about both images since seeing them.
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