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Cannes, 2008 Remix.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this photo. I shot it in a train station in Cannes in 2008 while at the film festival. I had made a short film that had won a bunch of awards and was invited to screen in at the festival. While the festival is ordinarily seen as a big celebrity affair, the short film part of it is underground - in the basement of the festival. I had to take the train from another town, and the station was underground as well. I only had a crappy Canon snapshot camera, but this photo got me thinking about shooting shadows and darkness. I never properly edited it, so I’m reposting a revised version. I miss having the latitude of a RAW file to edit, but this comes close to how I’d do it today. (Resized so it won’t mess up the grid.)

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Cannes train station, 2008.