William Eckersley’s Silent Night

Fine art photographer William Eckersley reveals the desolate nooks and crannies of London’s vacant nocturnal streets. Dedicating four years to capturing this rarely seen side of the capital, he spent night after night bracing against the cold in winter and taking advantage of the summer's few hours of darkness to achieve the stunning photographs collected in his newest book, Dark City. “At night London is lit up from all these different angles and different light temperatures, from sodium streetlights, fluorescents and halogens,” explains Eckersley of the exaggerated shafts of color illuminating his images. The unexpected structures and surreal vistas he uncovers offer an eerie and otherworldly vision of the iconic city. “The lack of humanity is a really interesting prism to see the city through,” continues Eckersley, who previously documented the capital’s abandoned buildings in his 2006 book Left London.