Sustainability: UNLIT - The heavy bur(de)n of light pollution

“But if light bulbs have a darkside, it’s that they have stolen the night. The excess light we dump into our environments is endangering ecosystems by harming animals whose lifecycles depend on dark. We’re endangering ourselves by altering the biochemical rhythms that normally ebb and flow with natur

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al light levels. And in a primal sense, we’ve lost our connection to night time skies, the tapestries into which our ancestors wove their star-studded stories, timed the planting and harvesting of crops, and deduced the physical laws governing the cosmos.”
- Nadia Drake, National Geographic

Considering this immense output of energy especially at night even when there is no one around. It is time to look at citylights and LED Billboards from a whole new angel of awareness.

This fashion project is constructed around two models (from future hot spot cities such as Lagos and Shenzhen) shot in late low light, works with long exposures, daylight, shadows and light leaks on light sensitive materials. Ingredients of beautyproducts sourced from nightshade plants. Animal wings have been kindly donated from ceised Butterflies collected by the photographers daughter over many summers ... and were returned.
All Brands, beauty and fashion, in this story are absolutely sustainable, responsibly and regenerativly sourced. This story is the coverstory of the latest, 2021, Issue of LISSOME Magazine on REWILDING.

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Fashion, Sustainability