Video: White on white. Monochrome photography by Anil Akkus
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Outside the window is white white! But it was not snow covered, and not poplar fluff, and not even feathers from the pillow covered everything around in an even layer. These are the impressions of the unusual photographic art of a young Turkish photographer named Anil akkus … His favorite color is white, which is why you will see other shades in the photographs of this author in exceptional cases, and only to shade one white object from another, and both objects from the background. They say that a black cat cannot be found in a dark room. Welcome to the bright room for white objects! Anil Akkus is a true virtuoso of light and shadow. If not for this talent, the snow-white experiment would have failed, but this did not happen, since masterfully directed lighting creates the necessary shadows of shades of gray, which, in turn, add volume to white objects in the photo and make them visible against a white background.
Light and airy, transparent and fluffy - these are the only words that come to mind when looking at a monochrome photograph of a Turkish maestro. Unreal, yet real. Illusions that exist in reality. An example of pure minimalism, where you can neither subtract nor add.
The young photographer does not yet have his own website, but if you are interested in getting to know his work better, new works by Anil Akkus can be found on his page with photographs.
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