In the loud, rapid, often shrill media world of today Paul Serrada searches on purpose the counterpoint: Calm, subtle images in which time itself seems to slow down, space itself to change..... Here a still surface of water reflecting reed suddenly gives birth to an artificial game of light and shadow as if the picture was manipulated. There a desert landscape develops an astounding depth and power to absorb you, making you forget about anything but form and colour – be it greyscales.
However, this meditative staging of lights and shadows is not “harmless”. Small, hardly perceptible details are referring to the intrusion of man into nature, to the hidden presence of the photographer, to some other thing “behind the image”. Many pictures seem to be of such really unreal beauty that the spectator opens up for moments of wonder and enchantment.
Pictures - and indeed poetry - thus allow views of this and at the same time other worlds in and around us. Worlds, we might have forgotten, we would like to suppress or simply have not discovered yet.
Stock photography by Paul Serrada at Alamy - a leading portal for both general and specialist images.
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