Kavi Gupta Gallery

Everyone knows that the word photography means writing with light, but few photographers make this etymology as apparent in their images as Melanie Schiff does. While others use light to show people or things, Schiff is more likely to make you think that she is using people or things to show the light around them. Her images are so intimate with the experience of luminosity that they even know how to make a joke of it, albeit a serious sort of joke...