Tale #9 - HEPHAESTUS’ FURY

Created in Cornwall during a spectacular sunset, HEPHAESTUS’ FURY is a fleeting reflection of the twin islets out Holywell Bay. I love how they look like a single, cracked islet, as if Hephaestus’ axe stroke them splitting them open. With the right tide wetting the sand, with a powerful sunset and with the right cloud coverage, a mildly long exposure transformed the sky into a burning crown over the islets, conveying Hephaestus’ fury as I envisioned it.

England 2018 | 5000 x 3334 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.