by Yvette Depaepe
Published the 11th of March 2022
 

Immersed in a visual world, we lived through many transformations of the art and the media of photography.  Images are the biggest tool for storytelling.

by Masatoshi Washimi

“Writing a poem of silence” is a metaphor expressed in photography with light and shadow.
Silence is sometimes more deafening than words, a silence made into a poem of light, dedicated to that deafening void left by words that have never been spoken.  The sound of silence in photography is magical, spiritual, transcendent, inspiring, humbling. The sound of silence can embrace dreams and express emotions.

Light is silent, and yet it speaks to us.
The soft whisper of a morning fog.
The exclamation of a bird taking flight.
The harsh shout of a brilliant sun.
The murmurs and conversations of a landscape.
Look. Listen ...to the loudness of silence.

by Martin Zalba

by Shenshen Dou

by Fabrizio Massetti

by Daniel Vine

The perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence is a perception deeply embedded in our cultural experience.

A photo is an instant. And that is so powerful.
Silence is powerful.
A photo is more powerful because of silence.
A photo is an abstraction, nothing exist still.
A photo is taken in a situation where audio is present: noise, voices, music. But that is not captured in the photo. The photo has no audio.
When you watch a photo you can sometimes imagine or abstract what the audio of that moment could have been.
A photo is silent, but can make a lot of noise.
When you watch a photo you are immersed in the audio landscape of your living moment that interact with the photo, but somehow you are captured by the photo and fell isolated from your current environment.
When you watch a photo you are always alone.
Even if you are with others, there is no time, there is no sound, you are out of sync to anybody else.
It’s you and that photo, you are private viewing experience.
A photo is more powerful because of silence.

Let's wrap ourselves around our cameras.
The quiet of photography and the silence of the finished photograph are eloquent in the way that surpasses all words. Time after time our cameras say “Shhhh!” and we do our best to obey'

Enjoy the sounds of silence in this wonderful gallery of 1x images.

 'A moment of silence' by Manuel Ponce Luque

'Blue Silence' by Jose Beut

by David Martin Castan

'Silence' by Greetje van Son

'Lost in a pristine scene …' by Yvette Depaepe

'Night Walker' by Peter Davidson

'A Ray of Light' by George Digalakis

'West Coast Silence' by Marianne Siff Kusk

'Enjoy the silence' by Michael Bilotta

 'Silence' by Esther Margraff

'Silence please!' by Ben Goossens

'Enjoy the silence' by minimalist

'Silence is golden' by Marc Apers

'silent moment' by Akitoshi Sasakura

'Silence' by Omar Mhanna

Untitled by Desislava Ignatova

'Silence' by Tibor Arva