LIGHT PLAY

A series of large scale photographs captures light traces and patterns against a background of urban landscapes. The images were inspired by festive illuminations seeming to spring to life in winter's twilight.

Some of the images suggest fleeting bursts of energy; others evoke the fluid outlines in the aerial morphing of a flock of starlings at dusk. The ephemeral nature of these enigmatic images reflects transience and uncertainty.

The photographs were taken using traditional 35mm film and zoom lens.

SIGNS AND TRACES

Accounts of unusual terrain and landscapes scarred by centuries of volcanic eruptions led Val de Furrentes to Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, near the West African coast.

Despite the region's hostile nature, the land yields grapes, hot weather vegetables, and tobacco. This series of photographs of a bleak, lava strewn landscape, captures the signs and traces of the habitation and cultivation of a seemingly barren and alien territory.

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