Honorable Mention TIFA 2023 Fine Art / Portrait

Love Seemed Sweeter and Sure In The Light of The Day

  • Photographer
    David Degelin

Inspired by a song from American music band Hem as well as by traditional Japanese portraits of the ukiyo-e art, the idea was to create a dreamy portrayal of Ekaterina Epifantseva using the reflection of a sunset.

I'm a photographer with a focus on portrait, street, and fine-art photography, and photography is my way of dealing with the world, people, stories, places, experiences. Photography is a therapeutic activity for me in a way, a survival strategy. I use light and shadow to capture what I feel, rather than what I see, and what I feel always takes precedence over what I see in what I do. I'm intrigued by the beauty of solitude, of people and places and in my work, this theme plays a dominant role.