Tale #20 - THE RADIANT KING

Created in Iceland on a cold March day right after a snowfall, THE WARM KING portrays Vestrahorn, one of the most iconic Icelandic mountains, radiant and bathed in warm light, in beautiful contrast with the snow dusting covering the mountain. 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 until I was happy with what I saw.

Iceland 2019 | 5000 x 3748 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.