A storm, indoors
A projector, a white shirt and a dark room: weather you can switch off.
- Where
- A photo studio, Glasgow
- When
- What lit it
- A projector and a film of a storm
- Reading
- 1 minute
The film was of a storm over the sea, and the screen was her. Lightning ran down a sleeve, rain fell across a collar, and none of it was wet.
Outside, the real weather was doing very little: a fine rain that did not make a sound on the skylight. Inside, the projector hummed and the room was very dark around one bright white shirt.
The trick is to stand still.
Move, and the weather slides off you. Hold still, and it stays.
The photographer waited for the lightning. It came every forty seconds or so, never where it had been, and she pressed the shutter by the sound of the film rather than by what she saw, a half second early each time.
Between the flashes the sea on the shirt was almost black, a slow roll of it from shoulder to hip, and it was easy to forget there was a person under it.
At the end the projector clicks off and the storm stops at once, which no storm has ever done.
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