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Expressionist

Photography is meditation.

Who or what is the Expressionist? I have been using this synonym for my photography for some time now. I want my photos to emphasise a certain expression in the scene captured.

I achieve this by concentrating on the essential elements of my image, which I like to emphasise by working with an open aperture and a correspondingly shallow depth of field.

For some time now I have been using the term Expressionist as the title for this website and other accounts without vowels in the form xprssnst or xprssn.st1.

I present my photographs exclusively in black and white2.

  1. By the way, st is the Internet address of São Tomé e Príncipe - a small paradise off the African coast. By the way: entering expressionist.info also leads to my website. ↩

  2. I use a self-mixed colouring of the highlights and shadows in cyan and sepia respectively. ↩