The suitcase

Ordinary scenes can become extraordinary with the light of morning and afternoon, during the hours of the long shadows. In these hours, the figures of all kinds of people sharing the street move between light and dark and create forms that the eye does not see but the camera brings out. Shadows are related to silent pictures which are close to the idea of timelessness. A fraction of second to take the picture is enough to express timelessness, a paradox of photography. The setting, different at every hour of the day, plays the same role as the scene at the theatre and is as important as the subject. There is a back and forth movement of the eye between the subject and the setting where the former defines the latter and vice versa. The relation between light and shadow, silence, timelessness, subject and background, are my favourite themes.