These long-exposure images—produced for The Kick-About No.118—were originally produced ‘in-camera’—with a table-top covered in black dustbin sacks and a strip of mains-powered LED-lights. The blurs and distortions were produced by photographing through some thick glass tumblers. The curvature of the planet surface was then produced digitally—just by grabbing the horizon line and giving it a good yank.
My inspiration for these photographs comes from the 1950s science-fiction classic This Island Earth (1955), a film I watched many times when I was a kid. The film features a planet being bombarded throughout by meteors and it has this fun, queasy colour-palette, which I wanted to emulate in my images by first making them black and white, and then colourising them afterwards. Ultimately, I was imagining these photographs as lobby-card stills, or film posters, for some forgotten sci-fi classic.
Red's Kingdom 
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