Final-Janiyen Al-Abdullah

In my Landscape and Place class we had to have a project of pictures that would reflect on what we learned. As a photographer who is specialized in portrait photography this was a little difficult, until I find some pictures from a Soviet Film maker. His name was Andrei Tarkovsky, and he did a beautiful Polaroid series that he put into a book called Instant Light. In this series he captured beautiful sceneries of the land that consist of long dark shadows and foggy landscapes, it also includes pictures of people in these dark landscapes, people that added more volume and shadow to the landscape, illustrating a story for the viewers to figure out.

I decided to follow in his steps of his Polaroid projects and make some of my own. It was a difficult process, because once the sun starts to set you only have so much time before there is no sun left. Taking these pictures at the golden hour I tried capturing these long dark shadows while mixing my landscape photos with self-portrait pictures. To capture the moments where the leaves have lost its color turning everything brown and make it into something that can be seen as beautiful instead of fallen.