James Pearson-howes, Photographer, London

Description

This outdoor photograph by London-based photographer James Pearson-howes captures a man standing on an asphalt roadside beside a tall, multi-tiered rotating postcard display rack. The man is dressed in a dark blue jacket and black trousers, holding a small postcard or paper slip in his hands while looking down intently. In the midground, a dark passenger car is blurred as if in motion against a muted, overcast sky. The lighting is natural and directional, casting a sharp shadow of the display stand across the ground. The composition balances the stationary figure and rack against the dynamic motion of the background elements.

Style

Documentary, Horizontal, Desaturated

Techniques

Analogue / film, Natural light

Color

Background

Street

Context

Editorial