Stray Siren Immersed In A White Lie

• Photographer
  David Degelin

It is a series about beauty and attention to detail. The series aims to draw people's attention to details that are mostly otherwise lost to most viewers. It consists of portraits of a young Belgian woman, Cassandra Balle using an extreme silhouette approach punctuated by red spotlights that each time highlight a minuscule detail of Cassandra's skin or hair. Each spotlight is like a separate photo and the whole series is built around different details that are portrayed depending on the poses as well as the rhythmic pattern of the spotlights.

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.