WHO IS SILVIA GRAV?
Silvia Grav is a Spanish photographer who creates dreamy, mesmerising images edited with harsh contrasts and light effects. These editing techniques produce mysterious sceneries in which young models have rays of white lines and smoke like shadows moving across them and the rest of the photograph. Grav seems to use a variation of different layers to create her final photo, layering images with different opacities.
At 18 she dropped out of Fine Arts the first year. After this her work got discovered and became viral after being published in media such as Juxtapoz, Communication Arts, Vice, The Huffington Post, This Is Colossal and My Modern Met.
PHOTO ANALYSIS:
CONTEXTAL/CONSEPTUAL:
The true woman cannot be seen in the image due to the warp across her mouth. She is shown portraying some intense emotion which may show a sign of her mental state. The concept of the workday be to show someone through their emotion, linking to the idea of emotional or mental identity
TECHNICAL:
The lighting of this image is generally quite light, clearly taken with a daylight source of lighting. You can see this lighting is natural, reflecting the focus of the photograph. The image looks to have been reasonably exposed, with a high contrast between the backdrop of the image and the model herself. The shadows of her figure and hair seem to be very dark (almost black) compared the the rest of the image.
The aperture of the photograph cannot be exactly determined as the background id barely visible, however the model is in focus. The shutter speed seems to be average, maybe 1/125 as the image seems to be regularly exposed, but also quite focused and sharp. The ISO also seems to be low as the image was taken in daylight maybe even a studio, so probably around ISO200.
VISUAL:
The image shows an almost nude woman with her hair up, holding her neck. The colour of the image is clearly in black-and-white with A clear use of tone being used between light backgrounds and dark shadows of the model. There seems to be some form in the photograph as there is some difference in shadows and highlights on the models body. The editing of the photograph is interesting as there seems to be a stretched or warped section on the models mouth being drawn to the left, which leads the eye fo this focal point.