Watching The Blurry Night

• Photographer
  David Degelin
• Photo Date
  19/03/2023

The full title is 'Watching while The Blurry Night Turns Into A Very Clear Dawn', and the photo is about alienation and the beauty of solitude. It portrays Clothilde Hacourt using the windows of washing machines in different vintage washing parlors in the suburbs of Brussels. For the shot, I explored about 20 different washing parlor locations in Brussels and did about 2000 test shots of washing machine windows. While doing so the people doing their laundry looked strangely at me, as some weird person taking photos of washing machines.

I'm a photographer with a focus on portrait, street, and fine-art photography, and photography is my way of dealing with the world, people, stories, places, experiences. Photography is a therapeutic activity for me in a way, a survival strategy. I use light and shadow to capture what I feel, rather than what I see, and what I feel always takes precedence over what I see in what I do. I'm intrigued by the beauty of solitude, of people and places and in my work, this theme plays a dominant role.