when rain falls
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Covered skies. Chances of isolated showers. Probability of precipitation. Rain. Rain, by its presence or its absence, is perhaps the one natural element that most informs what the people of this city, Vancouver, talk about, do or feel, from day to day. “When Rain Falls” is a brief photographic essay that explores the transformative, esthetic and expressive qualities of this transitory substance.
At a visual level, rain has the power to both provide and take away. It brings forth a number of scenic layers. One is a layer of greyness that permeates and even clouds details in any scene that it affects. Another is a layer of equalizing blurriness that is perhaps most obvious when looking through car windshields or other windows. On the ground, rain can wash away the opacity of things. Wet surfaces, roads, puddles, become reflective, almost transparent.
It is these transformative qualities that specifically interest me as expressive elements of a photographic palette. The overall results are a canvass of rain punctuated with existential brush strokes.
At a visual level, rain has the power to both provide and take away. It brings forth a number of scenic layers. One is a layer of greyness that permeates and even clouds details in any scene that it affects. Another is a layer of equalizing blurriness that is perhaps most obvious when looking through car windshields or other windows. On the ground, rain can wash away the opacity of things. Wet surfaces, roads, puddles, become reflective, almost transparent.
It is these transformative qualities that specifically interest me as expressive elements of a photographic palette. The overall results are a canvass of rain punctuated with existential brush strokes.
all images copyright © enrique manchon 2013