Karlovac in the fog 2016

Alfred Freddy Krupa took this photo, Karlovac in the fog, and what strikes me is how he's worked with light and atmosphere to create something both familiar and otherworldly. It’s a dance between the mundane—a street, some trees—and the mysterious. The textures here are all about the softness of the fog. The surface seems to absorb light, blurring the hard edges of the city into a dreamscape. There's this one area, right where the streetlight bleeds into the mist, that feels particularly charged. It’s as if Krupa captured a moment of pure perception, a raw sensory experience. The markmaking feels intuitive, almost as if he’s reaching for something just beyond our grasp. It reminds me a bit of some early Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs, where he’s also playing with light and atmosphere to create these haunting, meditative images. Ultimately, it’s about opening up a space for us to reflect on our own experiences of seeing and being in the world.