In pointing up their flashlights at the milky way, these amateur artists hover between the genres of documentary, propaganda, travel photography, romanticism and protest. Their flashlights are at once light pollution and symbols for man's desire to find meaning in the meaningless, all the while serving a formal and aesthetic taste for geometry and gradients of light and color. In a world dominated by simplistic photography for the sake of recognition, these illuminating photographs shine brightly as testaments to mankind's ingenuity while also documenting its foolish self-destruction and naive idealism.
