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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves
My photography is rooted in an everlasting curiosity and fascination for mankind. Like an anthropologist I want to decipher the stories that surround me. At the same time I try to arrange the formal aspects in a visual reassuring manner within the frame of a photograph.
This series of photos was shot in Budapest, during the first days of autumn. Days get shorter, temperature drops and more often than not it rains. Some of us are still wearing our summer clothes, others have taken out their winter garderobe and all of us seem in a hurry to get back home.
Shooting in black & white comes natural to me. Because my first steps into photography were in a black & white darkroom, but also because I am suffering from protanopia, a type of red-green color blindness. So black & white is my natural habitat, the home where I belong. On top of that the high contrast black & white brings focus to the subjects and hints on the hidden, underlying drama.
Author
I was born into a family where photography was always present. The first camera I took a picture with was a Voigtländer Vitomatic III CS. And when I was twelve, I for the fist time saw an image appear on a previously white paper in the darkroom. I was hooked for life. Twelve I am no longer and it's been ages since I last stepped into a darkroom but the passion remained. When I leave the house without a camera, which I hardly ever do, I feel amputated, and this has nothing to do with fact that photography has been my livelihood since the '90's.
I meanly shoot environmental portraits for magazines and do travel reportages too. I can’t determine a single point in time, or a pivotal moment but through the years my intrest started shifting to street photography. From the rigid document to the spontaneous impression.
Website
www.ivanmervillie.be