White Balance

White balance (WB) is used to sensitize the camera to the color temperature of the light at the recording location. The human eye also has this ability of chromatic adaptation. In physiology, automatic white balance refers to the eye’s capacity to perceive changes in ambient light color temperature almost imperceptibly. Thus, a white sheet of paper appears equally white under both artificial and daylight conditions.

The photographs depict snowy landscapes. Upon closer inspection, a figure dressed in white can be seen lying in the snow. Fallen? Thrown? Where does it come from? What has happened to it? Again, the aspect of personal perception and individual interpretation is called upon. The human being senses how foreign everything is; the external world and its meaninglessness confront the person, who is always seeking meaning, with existential conflicts. The absurd spares no one. This idea comes from the philosophy of Albert Camus, who dedicated his life to exploring the absurd: The absurd can catch any man at any street corner. For Camus, the feeling of the absurd arises from the conflict between the human desire for meaning and the meaningless world.