Dan Martensen, Photographer, London

Description

This portrait by photographer Dan Martensen captures a woman standing on an elevated subway platform next to a vertical sign reading 167 St. She wears a cropped red puffer jacket and dark clothing while looking out across the tracks toward the horizon. The composition utilizes dramatic natural lighting with deep shadows and warm highlights falling across the platform structure. Several other commuters wait further down the platform in the background light. The scene is framed with a white border reminiscent of a physical photographic print.

Style

Documentary, Artistic, Horizontal, Desaturated

Techniques

Analogue / film, Natural light

Color

Background

Street

Context

Editorial