The shapes and silhouettes created by shadows are a fascinating subject to photograph. One small movement can change the entire composition. This week's winner is Robert Peterson with his photo of the ...

A good photograph doesn’t always have every detail perfectly lit. Silhouette photography obscures the details and instead emphasizes shape and form. Photographing a silhouette isn’t necessarily ...

It is strange and entirely delightful that the silhouette still enchants us. The shadow form, which reduces the three-dimensional world to lines and contours, dates back millennia before it became a ...

Creating silhouette portraits by cutting out profiles of people in black paper has been an art form for centuries. But using shadow as a medium to create the same effect is something new. That's ...