Photograph 003 · Original ArchiveSanto Domingo · 2019

Where the light ends

Light does not erase the shadow. The shadow is what allows it to exist.

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Intense sunlight through silhouetted palm trees, with a thin presence of water in the distance in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo — 2019 · Photograph © Andrea Morel · Personal archive
Interpretation

There are images in which light is not there to reveal everything.

Here it almost does the opposite: it dazzles, erases detail and leaves the palms in shadow. In the distance, the water remains barely visible, like a quiet line.

Sun, water, contrast and stillness coexist in the same moment.

Perhaps it is the contrast itself that makes the scene feel silent: light does not erase the shadow. The shadow is what allows it to exist.

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