After hour glow

After hour glow. 2019.

This scene is all about the way artificial light carves a little stage out of an ordinary carpark. The blank metal wall becomes a backdrop, its panels stacked like theatre flats, while the red stripe cuts through the frame like a held breath. The concrete glows a cold green, the far wall falls away into deep shadow, and the lone strip light hangs over the stairs as if waiting for someone who never arrives. It is a picture of an in between time, after closing and before morning, where the functional architecture of retail space briefly feels cinematic and strangely tender.

24 mm • f/5.6 • 1/4 sec, ISO 64