22 Apr From AM to PM | A Visual Study on Light

Hayden Phipps

 

Alfred Stieglitz, a pioneer of modern photography said that “Wherever there is light, one can photograph” and film director Aaron Rose approached his work with the belief that “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary”. Stemming from two ancient Greek words – photo for “light” and graph for “drawing” – the literal definition of photography is the practice of creating durable images by recording light.

 

All of this forms the basis of the visual list we’ve put together here: a meditation on light through the eyes of local photographers, ordered (speculatively, but as accurately as possible) from AM to PM to show light in a few of its infinitely varying stages and forms. The soft glow that peeks through your curtains when you wake, the direct heat of the midday sun, a haze wrapping everything in its reach during golden hour and, when there’s not enough available light, flash renders the nighttime world in vivid clarity.

 

Nathi Khumalo

 

Lindsay Hamlyn

 

Thomas Pepler

 

Nico Krijno

 

Johno Mellish

 

Brett Rubin

 

Mack Magagane

 

Kent Andreasen

 

Caroline Mackintosh

 

Francois Visser

 

Jared Paisley

 

Shaun Stander

 

Katinka Bester

 

Tomas Wells

 

Guy Neveling

 

Tao Farren-Hefer

 

Andile Buka

 

Illana Welman

 

Paul Wallington

 

Anke Loots

 

Kristin-Lee Moolman

 

Ulrich Knoblauch

 

Dave Southwood

 

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