By Francesca Lungarotti
Backlight can be accidental (often the perfect mistake) or absolutely desired and studied. As an editor I find that the images that have this technique or ‘error’ offer a dreamlike vision that is open to many meanings and possibilities of use.
Silhouettes offer a different world of photography where imagination is the key to reading the image. Shadows are projections of the subjects and suggest other interpretations always aimed at the imagination.
Backlight provides contours and boundaries showing the subject or other items for the space it occupies.
Street Photography, Milan, Italy, 2015, Dock. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, silhouetted at dawn, Viera Wetlands, Florida. Photo: David Tipling/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, leaping out of water at sunset, Caribbean. Photo: David Tipling/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Switzerland, Canton Ticino, Verzasca dam. Photo: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Shadows. Photo: Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group 
Ground shadows. Photo: AGB Photo Library/Universal Images Group 
Shadow. Photo: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Daily life in Fes, Morocco. Photo: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Light tower for sports lighting. Photo: Marco Scataglini/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Switzerland, Canton Ticino, Verzasca dam. Photo: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Shadows draw geometric patterns on the facade of an old building in Tuscania (province of Viterbo in central Italy). The mouldings decorating the windows stand out. Photo: Marco Scataglini/UCG/Universal Images Group 
Christ the Redeemer international road, tunnel, 2013, Chile. Photo: AGB Photo Library/Universal Images Group 
Brazil. Shadows. Photo: AGB Photo Library/Universal Images Group 
Shadow of the photographer on the cobblestones of Radcliffe Square, Oxford, winter morning. Photo: Planet One Images/UCG/Universal Images Group
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