DARK VALLEY

This valley really belongs to darkness.

Then this small rally car arrives.

Small in the frame. Almost absurdly small.

And still, it changes everything.

Anyone who has experienced the brutal force of a rally car accelerating, braking, hitting the ground and pulling itself out again knows how deceptive the image is. In the photograph, the car looks almost lost.

In reality, quite a lot of violence is moving through the valley.

Not against the landscape.

With it.

The car cuts a pale trail of dust through the darkness. For a moment, something normally only felt becomes visible: energy. Pressure. Direction.

A small cause.

A rather large effect.

DARK VALLEY is therefore not a rally photograph in the conventional sense. No winner. No hero shot. The car itself is hardly even the point.

What matters is what it does to the space.

The landscape remains larger.

Darker.

Older.

But for a few seconds, it has company.

And the company is not particularly quiet.