The New Aesthetic

In Reuben Wu’s Photography, a View of Another World - Artsy

His goal, as with many of his projects, revolved around depicting places that appear free from a specific time or location. Lighting his scenes with drones, Wu illustrates the strength of the natural world, and “the magnitude of of time” that it took for these settings to form. Part of his ongoing project “Lux Noctis,” this latest group of fantastical atmospheric photos are inspired by what he deems the “anachronistic combination” of science fiction and 19th-century Romantic painting. (The Guggenheim and Met carry the series’s eponymous book.)