Early Morning Light

• Photographer
  Mo Verlaan
• Agency / Studio
  Studio Mo Verlaan Photography
• Technical Info
  Kodak T-max-first Printed On Old Agfa Brovira-scanned-8x Gelatin Silver Contact Prints-hand Colored
• Photo Date
  2023

For Early Morning Light, I used a very small size of old photographic paper putting them on a glass plate side by side before exposure. These papers are about as old as I am and each individual paper has its own patina. After scanning I reprint them in a larger size, mount them together again. The process invites the uncontrollable, the unexpected, the surreal surprise into the images suggesting the elusiveness and revelatory nature of life. This way of working helped me connect to my deepest grief after losing my wife. The hand coloring of gives it a lightness, a sparkle of a new beginning.

Mo Verlaan graduated in 2016 from the Foto Academy and continued studying, for a year at Atelier Smedsby in Paris and attended masterclasses in analog photography with Dirk Braeckman and Anders Petersen. Selected for the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Virtual Residency. Recently she was the Overall Winner Single Image with Book of Light at the 19th JM Cameron Award in 2022. The series Undercurrent was Winner of The Photo Award at The Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival 2019 in Kobe. Past 4 years Mo and her wife Anita Voorham have been working on their joint art book As The Magic Hour Shifts.