POP 812 Friday 27 January 2012
Today's POP is Rachel. Fashion night light.
Lightscapes is a series of imagery captured by photographer James Reeve which strips landscapes and time into slivers of time. Choosing to shoot and experiment at that particular point in the evening when the light fades and the flickers of night begin to merge, his latest photo series focuses on capturing artificial light and presenting it in pared down and abstract ways: the brash neons of Las Vegas become soothing panoramas, and the beacons of light detailed on isolated coastlines in Thailand become glints in the distance of an overwhelming evening.
Designer Dries Van Noten has collaborated with Reeve to present their current exhibition at the Joyce Gallery in Paris at the Palais Royal. The Belgian designer, highly drawn to the graphic forms of his photographs, has adapted Reeve's prints into his Spring/Summer '12 womenswear collection. Dries first encountered Reeve's work at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion & Photography in 2010 where Dries sits as president and Reeve had been presenting his images for the photographic prize.



