THE ART & BEAUTY OF SHADOWS NOW

KATHERINA JUNG

Shadows help to define reality. They also shape and add texture fantasy. They are an intrinsic element of beauty, impacting form, composition, and mood.

Beautiful shadows make Katherina Jung photos extraordinary. Surreal and powerful, the images evoke her daydreams and childhood fairytale memories. They are deep and dark, yet ethereal and light, in beautiful balance.

Highly conceptual and expertly styled, each of Jung’s images fuses the lightness and whimsy of fairytales with their darker complexities, in beautiful counterbalance.  

While Jung is only 22 years old, and has only been working with photography for a little over a year, she has developed a deep sense mood in her work, largely in how she harnesses the power of shadow.

We feel as though we are getting a glimpse into Jung’s tender process of self-discovery, as she emerges from her own inner shadows and begins to shine.

Many of Jung’s visual ideas spring directly from her daydreams or childhood memories of fairy tales.

Jung typically spends a whole week working on a single image. While she’s strongly opposed to retouching the models themselves, she uses Photoshop to create the surreal background or compositional effects seen in most of her images.

Most of her characters appear in a state of deep inner-reflection and communion with nature, soaked in rich shadow, laced with light, as if they’ve been observed precisely at a moment of self-actualization.

Jung is based in her hometown of Hermeskeil, Germany. See more of her work here.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Katherina Jung. I Can't Tell Where the Journey Will End, But I Know Where to Start.
2. Image: by Katherina Jung. Catch Your Dreams Before They Fade Away.
3. Image: by Katherina Jung. I’m Hungry For You My Love.
4. Image: by Katherina Jung. Doubt.
5. Image: by Katherina Jung. Cause I Care …
6. Image: by Katherina Jung. Salvation.
7. Image: by Katherina Jung. Influences.
8. Image: by Katherina Jung. Cosmic Love.
9. Image: by Katherina Jung. Emotions - Mourning.
10. Image: by Katherina Jung. I Was a Stranger in My Own Skin.
11. Image: by Katherina Jung. Taken.
12. Image: by BN App - Download now!
13. Image: by Katherina Jung. Shadows Turn To Grey.