‘It feels like the light is pushing the darkness apart’: Gellért Gombai’s best phone picture
The photographer was holidaying with his family when two shadows became a plaything for his young son
TL;DR
- Gellért Gombai, a freelance photographer, spends summers with his family at Lake Balaton in Hungary.
- He captured a photograph of his five-year-old son, Lóci, playing between two shadows cast by a changing room and a building.
- Gombai used his phone's filter and made minor adjustments to the image, appreciating the metaphysical spaces created by the light and shadow.
- His son Lóci described the shadows as looking like mountains or a monster.
- Gombai feels the image conveys light pushing back the darkness without appearing sad.