Urca & Altona
For Urca & Altona photographs, Thalie B. Vernet captures the light on her live model as she emerges from the water and darkness, recreating an upward movement from Italian sacred painting. This theatrical chiaroscuro, which inevitably evokes the great hours of Caravaggio or Leonardo Da Vinci, is reinforced by the bold double exposure between the subject and the wild texture of a bark or a barn wall. The effect produced is striking, revealing here the dramatic shadows of a candle smoke, here the relief of a patina on a cracked oil.
