For millennia, humanity’s relationship with nature has been predicated on our ability to control it. Luna is about reassessing that relationship. To open up to nature, let down all guards and return to it as equals requires oneself to be rendered truly vulnerable. While under the moonlight’s gaze, a connection is formed as we coalesce with the land—and to the dust return.
The Technical
All of these images are single exposures and the ghostly effect is achieved in camera—there are no post effects whatsoever. This is a very early series before I started shooting film full time, so it is digital and shot with a Canon 6D. It was the series that made me grow tremendously as I have never previously undertaken such an involved project. I came up with the lighting technique (although I’m sure I’m not the first to use it) while trying to fall asleep one night. These have all been taken in the dead of night under a full moon, and lit with a combination of moonlight and speed lights. Luna was shot on location in Death Valley and Joshua Tree under constant threat of possible rubbernecking from other people wandering the desert in the middle of the night.