Black and White Photography

My new work | Fleeting

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Two dandelion seed heads stand in backlight against a nearly completely dark background. The soft, side lighting highlights the delicate seed heads and gives them an almost luminous presence. In the foreground two already faded stems — one still bearing individual seeds, the other completely bare.

The composition plays with the contrast between abundance and loss, between the moment of existence and the imminent disappearance. The darkness of the background is not absence, but space — it elevates the fleeting into the essential.

Analog photography aesthetics meet digital precision. Format: 1:1.

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The 1:1 format earned its place here. When you frame the fleeting this way, the square doesn't crop, it holds.

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The dark background's doing real work here. Puts all the weight on those seed heads, and the backlight gives them presence without overplaying it.

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Mein neues Werk | Flüchtig by Guido Lucker