red noir

red noir happened on a beach in Kerala, southern India. The picture does not show any remarkable scenery, just two blurred beach strollers. red noir becomes a special, impressionistic picture through its composition - both graphically and color-wise. The few discernible elements in the blurry image - waterline, horizon, specks of birds and two people -seem to refer to each other and keep each other in balance. The sparse colour scheme in dominant light blue and beige is accentuated by the red clothing of the woman in the foreground and the black horizon line in the background.

Should any viewer spontaneously be reminded of works, especially beach scenery by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the photographer would of course reject any reference to the grand master of French Impressionism: Renoir, to his knowledge, has never been to India.