‘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

‘It feels like the light is pushing the darkness apart’: Gellért Gombai’s best phone picture

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.