Photographer SandroVannini used his decades-long knowledge of Tut’s antiquities to stitch together a stunning image of a guardian statue from 48 perfectly lit pictures. Tut artifact photography by LaboRosso
A life-size statue of Tutankhamun—but in the guise of Osiris, god of the underworld, depicted in Egyptian art with black skin—was one of a pair found guarding the pharaoh’s opulent tomb.What’s the story behind the cover?
Photographing the tomb presented a new challenge, because he wouldn’t have much control over the lighting inside the GEM. Its large windows reflected light off the multicolored semiprecious stones and gold metal objects that filled the room. “In postproduction, we can change highlights and lowlights,” he says. “Each time we change the light in photography, we are not changing the light on a material.”“Each photo is a piece of my work but also is a moment of my life,” he says. “Taking a photo means nothing if others don’t see it.”The guardian statues haven’t left the Cairo Museum together, Vannini says. The one featured on the cover has remained there ever since it arrived.
Vannini creates his images of antiquities by capturing several frames, each using various lighting techniques, then layering them together in postproduction to create a final, beautifully lit photograph. For this assignment, he took about 48 photos of the guardian statue and combined them to create the cover image. Likewise, he took about 160 photographs of the gold mask.
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