A Sign of Life

• Photographer
  Sam Rittenberg

“A Sign of Life” focuses on the infinite and cyclical nature of being. The subject of the photograph is a wall in Soho that was covered in torn posters. The name is derived from the blue dove like figure just above the center of the picture that appears to have something in its beak – something I imagined to be the sign of the olive branch told of in the story of the Great Flood. I used color, light, and compositional changes to manipulate the elements within the photograph as to express the paradoxical nature of that which is simultaneously in a state of destruction and creation.