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Citylights - the view from space

Ryan Nance February 19, 2014

Citylights: Photos by Karin Apollonia

Lights visible from orbit.

Citylights increases the focal distance of my previous work, documenting in found images human habitation on a global scale using the reflected light of population as seen from Earth's orbit, a graph-like portrait of human activity—desire—and its geographic distribution across the surface of our planet. Inversion of this image questions the arbitrary nature of man's sense of his own orientation in the physical realm on earth and in space, also suggesting fireflies seeking a mate against the blackness of night.
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via Faith is Torment 

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In 5tilt Tags photo series, Night, Found photos, space photos, earth
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