Shadow and Stone

Here, light does not arrive.  It returns—brushing the ancient corridor of Ta Prohm Temple with a hush so soft it feels inherited.  One side of the gallery glows with early breath; the other listens in shadow.  The space curves slightly, gently concealing its end.  Stillness gathers in the silence between each pillar.

Captured just before dawn, the eastern gallery reveals itself not through spectacle but restraint.  The air hangs with moss and age.  No voice disturbs it.  Every line of stone, every nuance of shade, seems shaped not by hand but by time held in prayer.

The artist entered this space as one would enter a sanctuary—with breath slowed, presence quieted.  Using a large format analogue camera, he waited in long exposure for the light to speak.  Later, in the darkroom, chiaroscuro shaping and hand-toning gave voice to that silence—layered until feeling overtook form.

This museum-grade archival pigment print is rendered on warm, tactile Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, in a strictly limited edition of 25 + 2 Artist’s Proofs.  Each is signed and numbered by the artist and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and Collector’s Print Folio Statement.
To welcome this image is to open a space where stone and breath remember each other.

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Previously titled ‘Gallery, Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia. 2021,’ this photograph has been renamed to better reflect its place in the series and its spiritual tone.  The edition, provenance, and authenticity remain unchanged.