Agnieszka Sosnowska – Lansendi, Iceland (2012)

I first encountered Sosnowska’s work through Lensculture’s underwhelming showcase of her work.

Several months later, I caught a broader cross section of her work as part of the Traces of Life exhibition at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography.

What struck me immediately was how good her printmaking chops were and how her digital presence seemed almost completely devoid of life by comparison.

Yet what strikes me looking at this photo which–excepting the stunningly luminous range in skin-tone and subtle gradations in the sky, which my guess would be were burnt in–limits everything in the frame to three zones: the textured black sand (Zone II), the dark grey rocks (Zone IV) and the sky (Zone IX).

It’s also interesting to note how Sosnowska has been working with variations on the idea of the image for more than a decade. For homework: compare and contrast the above with this photo from 2007.