Shadow Photography

When I started researching about the shadow photography i came across some brilliant shadow arts.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

and i also found George Maryer who thinks of light and shadow as the two main characters in any picture, after the model.

George Mayer : Is a Photographer, designer, artist. member of the Union of Russian Art Photographers. He won several contests and awards since 2001 - 2016, I took a close look at his 2017 Sony World Photography Award.

George Mayer - 2017 Sony Professional Grant

He took the concept of Libido and mortido which are reffered as two energy which accompany us through life since birth to death, some also call it life and death or yin yang.

On the photographs, the figure of a woman is used as a symbol, as a reflection of the human consciousness being at the boundary of the two concepts of creation and destruction.

In the techniques, he made use of the experience of such great experimentalists as František Drtikol, Erwin Blumenfeld and Victor Skrebneski.

Through the use of contrasting light and shadows, they showed the two antitheses coexisting in the human consciousness. And the fighting of these two antitheses is shown through the use of optical deflections.

I Further researched into Frantisek, Erwin & Victor and their different style of photography.

František Drtikol - František Drtikol was a Czech photographer of international renown. He is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes and portraits.

Erwin Blumenfeld - Erwin Blumenfeld was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue.

Victor Skrebneski - Victor Skrebneski is a photographer born to parents of Polish and Russian heritage. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1949. He set up his own studio in Chicago in 1952.

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In our third photography workshop I experimented with light and shadows and took some photographs and also created images inspired from František Drtikol shadow style.

In the above images I was trying to create a image were the model and his shadow both are the subject of the image, they both represent contrast and shows different story in one frame. this was inspired from George Mayer concept of showing two energies in one frame and from the style of František Drtikol.

Thats why I angled the light this way to sepreate the shadow from the subject and then i took two three diferent images, this was all a test for the final image. I did this experiment just to figure out and practice how to set the light to create this shadow effect and how well i will be able to edit them and merge them together.

Created this piece of portrait to show personality and our imagination.

When we are dreaming about something or wish something this is the representation of how it looks inside our head.

I edited this two images and merged together to create this portrait which i presented as my final work.