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THE GIRL WITH A BLACK HAT

Editorial selected by LENS CULTURE Editor's for Black & White Photography Awards 2023

Through these photos, I wanted to express, first of all, naturalness, dynamics, expressiveness, elegance and mystery. I wanted to create aggressive discrepancies between light and dark areas, thus creating a story, a dynamic and a silhouette in each of the images. It's about how we humans can see elegance, mystery and naturalness in different ways. I wanted to express this, and to show people how I see it through the perspective of my vision, the lens and my eyes. I didn't wanted to create just some photographs and that's it, I wanted to create a story, a silhouette, something that will remain imprinted in your mind, forever.

I wanted to capture a static action but at the same time I wanted it to be very dynamic and expressive. The entire action focuses on the character's hands, which suggest elegance and delicacy but also maximum naturalness, an absolute release of the model, which places the final composition beyond a photographic cliché.

In this image I kept the note of mystery but at the same time I revealed a small part of the character's identity. I wanted to capture a special naturalness through the suggestive movement of the model. The light falling on the character's face gives the photo dynamics and expressiveness. The silhouette of the model is extremely accentuated, due to the bright white of the background.

The oversized hat and the covered face of the model envelop the entire photo in a real mystery.
This photo is a closer frame of the model, so that a deeper and more intimate connection is created between the character and the viewer. The sparkling white of the background, emphasize even more the silhouette created by the model, making the final photo extremely dramatic and expressive.