Gathering Light

“If these photographs stand as a kind of homage to light, it is because they also celebrate darkness- a darkness without which light could never be experienced. if they take light as their theme, it is because this theme is shown to be indissociable fro that of darkness. Or, to cast a more precise light on the matter, if the theme of these photographs is light, it is light as what withdraws from theme, as what cannot be thematized. This is why as soon as it takes place, the photograph, consenting to its own disappearance, vanishes- and, in vanishing, it tells us that it never appears without its shadows, without its hidden features, without the night to which it always returns. In each instance, then, the gathering of light is also a gathering of night.” - Eduardo Cadava

“By taking light itself as the subject of his new photographs, Ross addresses the central irony of photography: the fact that photography, which lives in and by light, can no more look directly at it than ancient believers could look upon the face of God. Pure light in any photograph is a white cipher, a smear or a splotch or bar of burned out nothingness. Pure light, like true love and good grammar, is one of those subjects that is only perceptible in its defect.” - David Hickey

 

LAOS

Tiberius, Israel

Iglesia De San Luis, Seville

Turkey

Seville

Booths Bird Museum Brighton, Eng

National Museum Scotland

Berlin

Scotland

Budapest

Istanbul

Istanbul

Sao Paolo

Bagan, Myanmar

Paris

Copenhagen

Field Museum, Chicago

Topkapi, Istanbul

Iglesia de la Macarena, Seville

Italy

Moulin Rouge, Tijuana

Blane Kern Float builders, New Orleans

Jerusalem, Israel

Madrid

Madrid

Seville

Iselo, Italy

Bombay Circus, India

Madrid

Antontonilcal, Mexico

Vera Cruz, Mexico

Pompei, Italy

Trinidad, Tobago

Paramount Pictures

La Plata, Argentina

Graz, Austria

Austria

Stockholm, Sweden

Temple of Ananda, Bagan, Myanmar

India

India

Thailand

Atacama, Chile

Ancient Agora, Athens

Pompei, Italy

Tarquinia, Italy

Mandalay, Myanmar

Iglesia de San Luis, Seville, Spain

Jardin du Plantes, Paris