Arrival - Drone Light Painting

My photographic practice is inspired by a personal fascination with sci-fi & supernatural movies. I am captivated by the speculative realism within them, which is the believability and likelihood that these events could happen. Humans have always paired aliens & supernatural events with geographical locations and monuments; I have taken liberty in recreating these occurrences around singular structures of architecture. This project required me to understand the technical aspects and techniques needed to create a convincing sci-fi landscape. 

The images created for this project apply techniques of long exposure and light painting along with being a skilled drone pilot. I chose to use popular landmarks from around the United Kingdom as my singular structures which required a large amount of travelling across the country. The work of the cinematographers Greig Fraser & Roger Deakins inspires the cinematic aesthetic within my work via films such as Star Wars Rogue One, The Batman & Blade Runner 2049.

This project has won three international awards - IPA, ND & AOP as well as being exhibited in New York, London & Derby.