Benedict Redgrove, Photographer, London

Description

This horizontal landscape photograph by London-based photographer Benedict Redgrove captures a wide, snow-covered terrain under a pale, overcast sky. In the middle ground, low earthen trenches weave through the frozen landscape, partly obscured by a dense billow of white smoke or steam rising from the foreground. A figure in camouflage gear is seated near the trench opening on the left, while another distant figure walks along the terrain to the right. The color palette is dominated by muted earthy tones of brown and khaki against extensive white snow. The lighting is diffused and flat, emphasizing the bleak, wintry atmosphere of the scene.

Style

Documentary, Horizontal, Desaturated, Clean

Techniques

Natural light

Color

Background

Snowfield

Context

Editorial