Noor Castellane

Luxembourg / Brussels

Noor Castellane is a photographer working between Luxembourg and Brussels. Her projects look at domestic surfaces: stair rails, balconies, light switches, the corners of rented rooms that nobody decorates. She shoots mostly on medium-format film, prints her own work, and teaches an evening darkroom class for adults who have never developed a roll of film.

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An old light switch on a plaster wall, a grey halo of fingerprints around the plate, lit by warm window light

PHOTOGRAPHY & ARTWORKS

Light Switches of Strangers

Two hundred frames of the most touched and least looked-at object in any home. A photographer on a series that turned into a diary.

Laundry hanging on a line across a small balcony against a warm ochre wall

PHOTOGRAPHY & ARTWORKS

Rooms Without Walls

For one winter a photographer looked only at balconies, the small outdoor rooms that tenants are allowed to arrange in public. A note on the series.