…And so I looked and saw a kind of banner…

Posted: July 27, 2009 
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“And so I looked and saw a kind of banner

Rushing ahead, whirling with aimless speed

As though it would not ever take a stand;

Behind it an interminable train

Of souls pressed on, so many that I wondered

How death could have undone so great a number.”

Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno.  pg. 91, Lines 52-57, Canto III, Penguin Classics, Indiana University, 2003

This photograph is part of a series of abstract representations of scenes from Dante’s Inferno, the first book in his Divine Comedy.  You can see the full series and how each photo fits into the prose by visiting this link:

http://www.soma-sema.com/old/Abstract/dantesque-journey.html

All of the photos from the Dantesque Journey were taken with my Nikon FM2, a 135mm Nikon e-series lens or a 50mm Nikkor lens, 400 ISO colour negative film and a red filter mounted on the lens using my Cokin P-Series filter system.