Frame 16 · Editorial
Concrete Psalms
- Client
- Atelier Review
- Role
- Photography
- Location
- Marseille, France
- Year
- 2024
A short editorial for Atelier Review about the post-war housing blocks of Marseille, told through the people who walk past them every day.
Frame 16 · 50mm · f/11 · 1/250 s · ISO 100
Noon line.
Frame 17 · 35mm · f/2.8 · 1/125 s · ISO 400
Stairwell, from the fourth floor.
The story
Concrete is a patient background. It holds light like paper, and at noon in Marseille the sun cuts it into hard diagonals that move about a centimetre a minute.
I scouted the walls a week before and timed each frame to the shadow, not the other way round. The stairwell picture was made from the fourth floor looking straight down, on the only afternoon the caretaker left the door open.
Next on the roll
Golden Hour
A knitwear campaign made in the twenty minutes before the sun touches the ground, chased across one long summer.
