Metropolis Magazine ran this interesting profile of photographer David Allee, whose work studies the “harsh but ethereal effect of artificial light on man-made environments.” Story snip:
The intrusive otherworldly effect of artificial light on man-made environments is the theme of Allee’s ongoing “White Nights” series. Working with a large-format Linhof Technikardan camera, he positions himself in front of apartment buildings, houses, and gardens that are bathed in the overflow of floodlights from sports and recreation facilities. Using shutter speeds of two to three minutes, Allee subjects his film to the kind of intense light that turns night into an unnatural day, producing images that seem to capture a state between times and seasons. A photograph of a floodlit picnic area behind a 1950s-style drive-in presents a Christmas pine tree before a wintry treeless background garnished with the unnaturally luminous yellow of daffodils in full bloom. It seems to be neither winter or spring, night or day.