As with any other work, photography is a series of difficulties. You become a photographer because you like working at and overcoming these difficulties. A constant challenge has been working in colour. The key challenge of colour is one of consistency. Colours change dramatically throughout the day. Colours are unruly and clash dramatically within a frame. Colours mean too much, and they shout too loudly. To shoot colour is to be a wrangler.
Having battled with colour for months now, I’ve realised that the real reason I haven’t come to a solution is because I don’t know what success looks like. I don’t know what I want my colours to look like. Initially, envious of black and white, I tried to desaturate the colours in a bid to control them. But I’ve come to realise that that may be a stylised dead end. It goes against the spirit of colour. I need to first find a model to emulate, and check my photos against that. I’ll start with Luc Delahaye.
Posted 3 years ago
