Roses

These photographs are part of my ever-growing collection of what I call ‘Found photographs’. They are of roses in the Greenwich Rose Garden, taken on a late summer evening in 2017 or 2016. I stumbled across them and was compelled to take the photographs. They are decadent snapshots; I was drawn to them, those thorny symbols of love, on that night because they were so beautiful. It was like they had held onto the light a bit longer while everything else was getting darker. The first one especially reminded me of the rose in the west wing in the story of the Beauty and the Beast. ​

© Carita Silander