Text by Mads Zaar Riisberg
I love sifting through Xenia's work, it calms me down. But we have talked enough about the benefits of minimalism and serenity. You can breathe. Which is something people need more than ever. So having established that, let us talk about how hard this one is to pull off.
Backlight may seem easy to people that know FA. It is not. Nevermind, that you are shooting directly at light, but creating crisp 'blacks' is not that easy, and in photography black is only black if there is no light. Otherwise it is grey - in that respect, most BW work is not black & white, it is mostly white & grey.
Personally, I envy this, since I have never been able to do it. But that is the love of photography and indeed art - when you are much more into other people's stuff that you are your own. We all look for respite in these times. So why not sit and glance at this? The formation of the birds gives it a slight 'pop', and slides away in yummy curves.