American ghost towns in night photographs of Noel Cairns

However, the full moon when shooting houses from the inside provided very little assistance. Her light pierced through the shabby structures so weakly that it was completely unable to drive out the darkness that settled here. Then lanterns sensibly taken with them, colored gels and strobe lights were used.

It is worth noting that not all of the places visited by him and captured on camera were open for public access. But no one looked after them, and there was not a soul in the whole district. There was no one to complain about penetration into the restricted area, so the author could shoot his beautiful shots with long exposures.

Perhaps, looking at the work of the American photographer, we are not only transported into the past, but also thanks to the lighting, we plunge into a kind of surreal space.

Among the photographs of Noel Kearns, you can see old hotels where music used to play and life was boiling, abandoned houses, where dinners and families gathered before, as well as abandoned industrial facilities and even more dormant military bases. Some of the places he had captured were demolished and no longer exist, while others, on the contrary, continue to stand waiting for the next visitors who will again light the light in them and disperse the shadows.