Lightscapes

I once saw an image on the internet, I believe it is fairly well know, that described modern art as the intersection of "I could have done that" with "well you didn't". Now, I don't want this to be taken as me saying that these photographs are not skillfully created, because they certainly are. This is a project that I have been thinking about doing while walking around New York for years. I have always loved photographing lights at night. There is something about the high contrast, the deep shadows, and the neat little areas that the direct light creates. Well, I didn't do the work, and then I found these excellent photos. Lightscapes is a project that that British Photographer James Reeve has been working on. About it he has this to say: "Working on ‘Lightscapes’, I have been exploring the night in a new way, stripping away normal visual references to focus not on the landscape itself, but on the vivid scars of light that pierce the darkness. Vast industrialised cities and iconic landmarks are represented as anonymous patterns of light, whilst the contours of buildings are stripped away to reveal the contents within."