Chapter Five — The Blue Hour
Blue Hour Bodies
Ten studio photographs that recreate the blue hour indoors, long after it has ended outside.
Series
V
—
2023
Pl. 01 of
10
( about the series )
Location
New York Studio
Made
Studio nights, 2023
Medium
Digital, tungsten gels
Photographs
Ten
The blue hour lasts about twenty minutes. In the studio I tried to make it last all night, with gels and a single lamp held very far away.
The bodies in these photographs are barely there — a shoulder, a jaw, the line of a back — described only by the colour of fading light.
Pl. 01
Blue Hour Body
Pigment print, 60 × 90
Pl. 02
Night Veil
Archival pigment print
Pl. 03
Half Light
Studio, 2023
Pl. 04
Sun Flower
Studio, 2023
“Blue is the colour of things leaving.”
— Studio notebook
Pl. 05
After Hours
Studio, 2023
Plates 01 — 05 of
10
Next Series —
06
/ 08
Studies
in Grey