Recent MFA Photography Graduate Clarissa Bonet captures all the unseen moments while exploring her new city of Chicago. Using a Cannon 5D Mark II along with various lenses including an 85mm 1.2 and 24-70 2.8, Bonet takes advantage of naturally occurring light and shadow to create cinematic urban images. Interested in isolation and common everyday happenings that otherwise go unnoticed, often using strangers in silhouette, heightening the dramatic quality of her recent City Space project.
Using the city as a backdrop Bonet, keeps the city scape vague, void of any specifics as she wanted to keep the focus on the urban environment not the city of Chicago, indicating that these fleeting moments can and do happen in all urban settings. Her use of deep, almost black shadows also reads as a void, lending further to the feeling of isolation.
I enjoy the cinematic quality of Bonet's City Space series, the fact that she uses available light and sort of sculpt and common, everyday scene into something just as dramatic as a still from a movie is really great and makes me want to seek out those everyday moments that happen in an urban setting. I am already really to documentary style and street photography, this extra dramatic layer is appealing and may be something I try and challenge myself with.
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