Shadows of Presence
A shadow, as defined by Oxford Dictionary, "is a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface." The term is often used in reference to something insubstantial, fleeting or ever-changing. On the contrary, for this serious of photographs, a shadow refers to the exact opposite, a steady and deep presence projected on a very particular, and principally, permanent surface.
"Now, in the photography, what I posit is not only the absence of the object; it is also, by one and the same movement, on equal terms, the fact that this object has indeed existed and that it has been there where I see it...with the photography, my certainty is immediate." Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida
