Raymond Carballada Photography

This series of black and white photographs explores Philadelphia through light and shadow, capturing the city's architecture, streets, and urban moments.  Each image explores how light reshapes the familiar, turning the city into a study of form and light. By using monochrome images, I emphasize the rawness of structures and spaces, allowing subtle tonal shifts and deep shadows to define the image's narrative.  Each image has an evolving vision, where the print is an extension of my creative process. Each image is printed on fine art paper, selected to enhance the image, inviting viewers to experience the city as a composition of tones, light and space.

The Poetry of First Light is a photographic study of light created during each morning's golden hour in May 2024, shooting from the same point on the Philadelphia Art Museum Steps overlooking the skyline of Philadelphia.

This series prioritizes geometry over subject, presenting city structures as abstract compositions in black and white. The focus is on form and space rather than recognizable locations. These images flatten the real into the graphic and minimalist view.

Images shot on 35 mm and 2 1/4 film. Then the negatives are scanned, digitally processed, and printed to retain the analog tonal richness and depth of film, while the digital workflow allows for a level of control not possible in a traditional darkroom.

This portrait series is inspired by the iconic style of Annie Leibovitz and reimagined through black-and-white images.

This portrait series is inspired by the iconic style of Annie Leibovitz and reimagined through black-and-white images.

This portrait series is inspired by the iconic style of Annie Leibovitz and reimagined through black-and-white images.