Shadowlight is a photographic series that captures wildlife through the interplay of backlighting and silhouettes. This work grew out of a life altering accident in 2020, when I suffered a brain injury after being hit by a car. In the silence that followed, I rediscovered a way of seeing the world I had known as a child: curious, playful, and full of wonder. This perspective has since become the foundation of my photography.
Light is at the heart of this series, whether it’s the fading glow of sunset, the cool radiance of the moon, or the soft embrace of morning mist. These fleeting moments transform wildlife into more than a subject, they become emotion, memory, and atmosphere.
Through silhouettes and backlighting, Shadowlight explores the tension between light and darkness, visibility and obscurity. This duality mirrors my own recovery: darkness shaping a new perspective, and light that gradually returned. In Golden Illusion, Moonlit Migration, Mist and Morning Light, and In the Glow of Touch, I capture moments where light turns the ordinary into the extraordinary, a swan bathed in sunset, geese crossing the moon, birds adrift in morning mist, and gannets touching beaks in the fading glow.
Shadowlight invites viewers to pause, to feel the stillness between wingbeats, and to see the wild not just as it appears, but as it feels in the fleeting glow of light.