Thursday, December 24, 2009

Shadow People



Night shooting gives me a glimpse of a part of our world that most people just sleep through. There is a different pace to the night. A different look. A different feel. Prowling the streets at night one certainly expects to come across shadows. Sometimes shadows are the brightest part of night shooting. But what I really love about the night are the things that show up, different from the light of day.

Shadow people are well known in occult literature. Dark forms on edge of a frame or field of vision, they are said to represent ghosts or negative energy. The most intriguing explanation to me is that they are seeping form or energy, that what is actually being seen is the temporary flicker of energy of a form, an entity from a different dimension. Present in our reality for a brief period of time whilst dimensions overlap and then gone from view as worlds alter once again.

Jeanloup Sieff