Hessam Samavatian addresses the significance of light for photography in a series that focuses on the candle. Against expectations, a lighted candle is mounted on a tripod in place of a camera and evokes associations with the candela, the unit of luminous intensity. Hessam Samavatian thus refers to a component that plays a major role in the photographic recording technology—aperture / focal length / the speed of lenses—and nonchalantly stages the exchange between the light source and the camera obscura.