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The Sydney Opera House at night with its shells lit in magenta, pink and green projections, reflected in the dark water of the harbour.

Sails, Lit

Sydney · June 2018

Sony A9, 70 millimetres, f 22, 10 seconds, ISO 800

For a fortnight a year the building is a screen.

For a couple of weeks a year they treat the shells as a projection surface, which sounds like vandalism and mostly is not — the colour moves slowly enough to hold a long exposure, and the water underneath doubles all of it.