Tale #19 - THE NORTHERN KING

Created in Iceland on a freezing December night, THE NORTHERN KING shows Vestrahorn, one of my favorite Icelandic mountains, crowned by a beautiful, unique arch-shaped display of aurora. Reflection has been produced using the wet sand; to create this image, I had to place my tripod, frame and shoot in between waves, then leave not to get drenched, come back and repeat, chasing the extremely fleeting and ever-changing Northern Lights until I was happy with the results.

Iceland 2019 | 5000 x 2813 px

ABOUT TALES OF TWO WORLDS

Reflections are a deep, philosophical subject more than a photographic one for me, and one I love exploring and working on at any chance I get.

Photography is never real; it’s just a bi-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional reality. Photography is an interpretation of reality. Reflections are optical illusions, mere perceptions of reality. I always considered reflection photographs to be images telling tales of something in between two worlds.

To tell my tales, I often like to introduce elements breaking the perfect symmetry of my reflections; visual anchors, points of interest, or simply something hidden in the image, something that you can’t really see but it’s there if you look for it.

Photographing reflections is an exploration of the interplay between what we perceive as real and what is just a perceived image of that perception. This collection is a 4-year slice of that exploration.