Au-Delà de la Tristesse Bleue by Zhenya Zingallure

In Au-delà de la tristesse bleue, photographer Zhenya Zingallure conjures a world where sorrow glows rather than darkens. The series sits somewhere between dreamscape and séance, built from soft blue light that seems to pulse with its own inner weather. Within this atmosphere, the subject becomes an apparition caught in the threshold between waking and drifting away.

Zingallure treats light as both sculptor and storyteller. Faces emerge from deep shadow with the delicacy of a candle flame, and every highlight feels brushed on by hand. The effect is painterly, almost devotional. Nothing is static, yet nothing moves. Instead, the images breathe. They shimmer with the slow rhythm of reflection, holding the viewer in a contemplative stillness that never slips into silence.

The styling amplifies this mood with gowns of lace, sheer tulle and rippling fabric that gather around the model like mist. These garments do not simply sit on the body. They expand, dissolve and reform, creating silhouettes that feel untethered from reality. The model appears suspended within them, as if she is being shaped by grief, memory or some unseen current swirling around her.

Zingallure’s compositions heighten the sense of drifting consciousness. Overhead frames reduce the figure to a luminous shape in an ocean of blue, while side profiles turn her into a tragic figure gazing toward a vanishing horizon. The emotional register is subtle. There are no theatrics, no grand gestures. Instead, the power lies in quiet tension, in the way the images allow melancholy to exist without demanding resolution.

Au-delà de la tristesse bleue is not a portrait of sadness but an exploration of its afterglow. Through Zingallure’s lens, sorrow becomes something weightless, drifting, strangely beautiful. The series invites us to sit with that beauty and follow it into the blue.