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Light, the photographer’s medium, is capricious. When an object is hit by light, it casts an
ethereal shadow of itself, an absence of light, not always immediately apparent in its form.
Shadows have three distinct degrees of density, each of which has its own nomenclature:
umbra, penumbra and antumbra. Antumbra is the outer edge of the shadow, particularly
evident in soft light, where it appears as if the object casting the shadow is almost no longer
there, such as in an annular eclipse. This ephemeral moment is in a sense the shadow of the
shadow, and becomes a true metaphor for, and of, itself. …