Vignettes
These images are a series exploring the Irish landscape and coastline through small individual details, each one focusing on their independent existences, released from their actual surrounding space and identity. I love the power of story-telling pictures, the cut-aways that say more about the subject than an all-informing wide angle . We can easily be blinded by the amount of information around us, forgetting the smaller beautiful details that make up the whole. With this series I wanted to focus on these finer details, the motive of a detail that, by itself and surrounded by darkness could become even more powerful than a full image.
The photo technique of the 'vignette' is most commonly associated with portrait photography. Blurring or darkening of the edges to draw focus to a central subject is quite an old fashioned technique. By vignetting my landscape subjects, I was attempting to bring the focus into a central subject, drawing the viewers attention deep into the image.
“Every landscape can be decomposed in an infinite number of minor ones, progressively increasing their introversion, as their actual nature seems to be replaced by a more abstract one” -
Petros Koublis
