Grey is one of the hardest colors to work with since it leans so easily towards other colors. Who hasn’t brought home a jar of paint only to find it looks green, brown, purple, blue or pink on the wall?! However, when it’s right, it’s right.
Low-key images, backlight, long shadows and silhouettes. Neo-noir has all the elements of the classic film noir genre of the 1940s. Dark, cynical and apocalyptic. Kind of like a Swedish November.
A Swiss mythical character wandering the woodlands of Maules, the resurrected scent of extinct plant Silphium and a moonlit Alp cave. These are the scented stories of perfume house Stora Skuggan.
Photography is all about mastering the light and controlling it through the lens. “Painting with light” some say. In that scenario, the absence of light must be your canvas. Fashion photographer Paolo Roversi works within this context.
“A Nasty Character Indeed” David Bowie has said of him. “The Thin White Duke” is the controversial persona that emerged during Bowie´s drug fueled mid Seventies.