This photograph dates back to just before Christmas 2009, when the German market came to Bradford City Centre. Although the market closed early due to lack of business and interest, it still brought happy expressions to the faces of Bradford.
The intensity of the lights was a reminder of the iconography associated with Christmas. The fairy lights, the tinsel and the stars, all the physical attributes that contribute to the meaning of Christmas.
The atmosphere created from the photograph is as Barthes describes as enigmatic. The mise-en-scene contains both very low key lighting, yet very high key lighting. The binary opposites coincide with the concept of reality and imagination. Christmas contains so many myths, yet when we are children, they all seem so real. This photograph reinforces that concept.
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