The first part of the series „The Pencil of Nature“ consists of long time exposures of the city lights whereas the movements of the camera can be seen as the mimicry of the accelerating rapidity of life in the city and the perception the rapidity creates. The photos show the city in an artistic-abstract manner, reducing the visual impression of night in the city to vibrant light sculptures with an architectural quality.
The second part of the series photographed in the forests around the city creates a visual contrast, reducing the forest to form and colour, reflecting the perception of following the trees through the sky and the serenity of being in the nature.
The project is named after Henry Fox Talbots series of photographs from 1840‘s. He had seen a pencil in the ability of the camera to draw, to record the light. And my series of photographs can be seen after 170 years as a contemporary counterpart.
