“Descend” – A 15 image photo story about a fallen angel

Steven Perdikis

After lots and lots of hours of photo manipulation, retouching, adjusting lighting, and concreting my creative vision – it is finally done. I wanted to tell a story with this entire set of images. I didn’t know how long that story would be, or how many images it would include.

Now that I’m done, fifteen feels about right.

Take this series of images as a linked narrative, and make of it what you will. It’s designed to be open for interpretation.

These images were shot in my tiny, tiny home studio.

I want to continue developing my photography in two streams – narrative, structured work – with another stream of one-off images that can standalone and be dense with narrative. Just like good writing, it will be all about compressing information and saying more with less.

I look forward to where that takes me. That’s the creative side, then there will be the commercial side, which will just to do whatever the client tells me to do, and produce the best possible work within their brief.

Two sides to every coin.

Shot mostly on my 24-70, D750, and with a Godox AD200 as my main light, camera left. Two speedlights in use, one camera right, firing into a white wall with an orange gel on it, and another with a grid and diffuser behind the model to apply a slight back light to the images.

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