Raphael Beazley, The streets of sand (PEOPLE 2023)

Inspired by the contrast depth of Tri X film stock and street photography, I took to the beaches of Byron Bay to emulate 50mm street photography with a 150-600mm telephoto. The idea was to capture a foreground with a level of depth and the midground to capture the motion of the surfer. With these thoughts in mind, I managed to capture the vision I had with this onlooker watching a surfer perform their dance metres from shore. With the glare of the middle of the day, the thought of Tri X film stock invoked my imagination and I took to pulling hard on the shadows and blacks to produce a high contrast monochromatic image.

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