Ghostly Photos Reveal Subzero Shortcuts

[Jazzy]

Photographers do extraordinary things in pursuit of the perfect shot. To find the poetic and the ineffable, for example, Latvian photographer Alnis Stakle traipses into unnamed and virtually uninhabited places, in the dead of night and in subzero temperatures, for his series Not Even Something.

“When I am shooting, the temperature is around -10C to -15C, and most of these places are so dark that it is hard to move about, you cannot see beyond your next step,” Stackle says.

Stakle makes landscape photos on the outskirts of Latvia’s capital Riga, where he lives, and in Daugavpils, the country’s second-biggest city. His photos seem well-lit, and some of the photographs are even bright, but this is because Stakle’s exposures are between 2 and 5 minutes, sucking in details hidden in the dark.

What do you think of the photos?

 

[Evil Eye]

Cold

Some nice pictures, mostly it just looks inhospitable.