Shadows

Light is rarely alone.

It brings shadows along – as witnesses.

I follow them as they move through walls, across faces, into the places where no one asks questions. Sometimes they reveal more than the camera ever could. Other times, they just stay quiet.

There are images where you see everything. And then there are the ones where the light just manages to escape.

Glowing contours of a staircase in darkness – photograph taken in the Cisterns, 2015 | PLAKATfar

Stairs – The Cisterns, 2015

Moisture runs down the walls, deep beneath the soil of Søndermarken.
The darkness is dense, and only patches of pale light show the way.
The ISO is pushed to compensate, and the camera’s click echoes through the chalk-covered walls.
A few hours later we’re back above ground – squinting into the autumn sun as if we’ve returned from another time.

Original photograph from The Cisterns, once part of Copenhagen’s Waterworks. The mood can’t be captured on a poster – but down here, underground, it still lingers.

Camera: Fuji X-E2 Lens: XF18-55mm f/2.8 Shutter: 1/125 sec at f/4 ISO: 6400 – wow
A rusted car wreck abandoned in a forest – photograph taken in Båstnäs, Sweden, 2021 | PLAKATfar

Apocalypse – Båstnäs, 2021

Nineteen kilometres of ice-slick roads, deep into the Swedish forest.
Cars stacked, toppled and swallowed by moss, as if the apocalypse had already passed. Wreck after wreck, as far as the eye can see. A sign reads:

“If you get hurt or die, I DON’T CARE! Remember – in this place no one can hear you scream.”

We stay for three hours. The air is as still as metal.

The feeling is hard to capture – and harder to forget. You can read the full story in our article The Car Cemetery in Båstnäs – a journey into silence . The photograph is also available as a poster from PLAKATfar.

Camera: Fuji X-T3 Lens: XF18-55mm f/2.8 Shutter: 1/125 sec at f/10 ISO: 160
Arcades in Perugia in afternoon light – photograph taken in Italy, 2023 | PLAKATfar

Arcade in Perugia – Italy, 2023

Forty-two degrees in the shade. Sun from a cloudless sky.
We seek refuge beneath the arcade by Piazza Italia.
The light reaches only a few metres in – it’s close to noon.
Everything boils in the Umbrian capital, but the man in the frame seems to know the heat.
One click, and we move on into the glowing streets.

A photograph from Perugia, taken during our travels through Italy. You’ll also find this motif as a poster from PLAKATfar, printed in high quality and still drenched in the same Italian light.

Camera: Fuji X-E2 Lens: XF27mm f/2.8 Shutter: 1/18 sec at f/3.2 ISO: 800

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