Darkness Visible

This series explores the evocative nature of the night and the subtle beauty that can be found in the urban-industrial landscape after dark. Places that, by day are considered unattractive blemishes on the landscape, by night take on an eerie abstract kind of beauty when viewed through the eye of a camera. Through use of extended exposure times and by taking advantage of the reciprocity failure of daylight film, surrealistic images of familiar yet unfamiliar places are created from the mundane landscape. The images are all photographs taken at various times of night. The effects achieved are all done ‘in camera’ without the aid of digital manipulation. They are photographs of places found driving randomly at night around the city of Adelaide, places that people pass by day after day and fail to notice. Places that no one would normally consider worthy of the title 'beautiful'.