Searching For Grace in a Dark Black Night

• Photographer
  David Degelin

Shot below Pont du Carrousel, next to the Seine river in Paris, I tried to capture a moment of fragile beauty, expressed by Silvy Sirius, with whom I did a kimono shoot the entire morning.

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.