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Stephen Taylor Court in Dezeen12.22 / 90for90 – Vajrasana Buddhist Centre03.22 / Bath Abbey in L+D10.21 / 100 Liverpool Street in arc10.21 / Bath Abbey on FCB Studios Blog04.21 / Knole House in Lighting Journal03.21 / Green Heart Birmingham in arc02.21 / Westminster Abbey in A1 Lighting10.20 / The Prince Akatoki in arc06.20 / #onephotochallenge05.20 / Norwich Cathedral in L+D03.20 / Tombola House in RIBA Journal12.19 / Illuminated River at Lightspace11.19 / Illuminated River in Architectural Record11.19 / The Architecture of Intuition10.19 / Gasholders in L+D10.19 / Up and Down09.19 / Tombola House in AJ09.19 / Illuminated River in arc09.19 / Royal Academy in Lighthinking06.19 / Watching Paint Dry06.19 / Glover’s Alley in B-EAT05.19 / English City Gardens in Arc05.19 / Gathering Light04.19 / Signs of Life03.19 / The (un)Illuminated River03.19 / Gasholders in Lighting10.18 / Architectural Photography Awards 201810.18 / The Royal Academy09.18 / T5 First Wing featured in Arc02.18 / Mithras image in Architectural Review02.18 / Bloomberg London in AJ12.17 / Lansdowne Club in FX05.17 / Take it as it comes01.17 / Made of Light Too website launched01.17 / Where is Everybody?11.16 / Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards10.16 / Appropriate Light, Serpentine Pavilion10.16 / Gasholder 8 in mondoarc10.16 / No Drama10.16 / Every Day is a Good Day09.16 / Sunset + 20 minutes09.16 / Appropriate Light, Turner Contemporary Margate08.16 / Guinness Storehouse in Lighting Magazine06.16 / 71 Queensway in the AJ05.16 / In Context04.16 / CP Hart Showroom in darc magazine03.16 / Fuzzy Boundaries03.16 / Oxford Brookes in Blueprint02.16 / Personal project on Documentary Platform01.16 / Oxford Brookes in Lighting/Blueprint12.15 / Is it possible to photograph the lights going on and off?07.15 / Feature in Lighting04.15 / Restoring the Light04.15 / Waiting for a Solar Eclipse03.15 / In Praise of Darkness10.14 / Sensing Spaces01.14 / Creative Review Award11.13 / Nocturnal Change06.13 / The Logistics of Space05.13 /
In Praise of Darkness 10.14
Recently I spent a few days exploring Naples. Sometimes this meant getting up before dawn so that I could be out on the streets before sunrise, those were the hours, or rather minutes, during which these photographs were taken. The street lighting starts going off ‘at dawn’ like it would in any city as it is starting to get light then, but in the old town where the streets are tall and narrow this is not the case as what little daylight there is does not penetrate. This meant that for a short while the streets were dark, really dark. The only illumination came indirectly from doorways and windows, long stretches were pitch black.
Technically ‘unsafe’ but actually not a problem to walk along the streets were very beautiful, what is lost in light level and uniformity is gained in atmosphere. Living in London where it is not possible to find conditions like this it was a rare treat to experience darkness in a city, it was only a few brief moments but it is one of many things I love about being in Naples.
