Photos of a World in Darkness Illuminated by Single Sources of Light

This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel

French photographer Julien Mauve has always been fascinated by light, and his project “After Lights Out” is an interesting study of the subject. The series is based on a simple idea: what would it look like if darkness overtook our world, and only a single source of light were present to pierce the darkness?

Each of the scenes seen in Mauve’s photos are completely devoid of artificial light except from a single source, through a single window.Mauve tells us that all of the photographs were shot with a Canon 5D. In some of the shots, he uses an off camera flash to create the single source of light. In others, he removes the lights in the scene using Photoshop.

For an image in the series shot in Prague, the scene was exactly as he found it: a single window illuminated in a completely dark town:

Other images in the series required just as much lucky, in different ways. One photo features an old lady standing in front of a glowing phone booth. She wasn’t actually posing for the photograph. Mauve tells us that she simply enter the frame and stood there silently while the image was being …

By: Michael Zhang

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