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Havana Waterfront Buildings in Warm Light Colour Photography

Sale price $25.00 CAD

Sunlit Facades Line the Road Beneath a Blue Sky

The most weathered walls are also the ones that hold my eye longest. I photographed this row of buildings beside Havana’s waterfront, where warm light brings out patches of worn plaster, narrow balconies and tall windows. Above them, a blue sky gives the scene a much simpler field of colour. The contrast lets the architecture remain full of detail without filling every part of the photograph.

On the right, a broad pale wall carries an irregular pattern of lighter and darker surfaces. Small windows, an arched opening and a short line of laundry interrupt it. Farther along the row, the buildings become narrower, with more ornament around their windows and balconies. I like the changes from one facade to the next. The light touches their fronts, while recesses and doorways provide darker marks within the warmer tones. Streetlamps repeat along the pavement and give the row another line to follow into the distance.

I kept the road in the foreground because it allows the buildings to stand back from the camera. A small car and people along the pavement add a sense of scale, but the facades remain the focus. When I made the photograph, I was interested in the meeting of different surfaces and styles along the waterfront. Looking at it now, the colour is as much about the light as the paint: soft yellows and muted greens sit beside exposed, weathered areas, all gathered beneath the open sky. That combination gives this particular stretch of Havana its photographic character.

© Dan Kosmayer, 2017

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Every photograph in my collection comes from my own travels, explorations, and years behind the camera.

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