Ominous Silhouettes

Posted: July 27, 2009 
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And when I looked beyond this crowd I saw

A throng upon the shore of wide river,

Which made me ask, “Master, I would like to know:

Who are these people, and what law is this

That makes those souls so eager for the crossing—

As I can see, even in this dim light?”

And he: “All this will be made plain to you

As soon as we shall come to stop awhile

Upon the sorrowful shore of Acheron.”

Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno.  pg. 91, Lines 70-78, Canto III, Penguin Classics, Indiana University, 2003

This photograph is part of a series of abstract photographic representations of pieces of Dante’s Inferno.  For the full series and to see how the photos fit into the prose, please visit 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.