Michael Wilkins
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Dozens of red paper lanterns strung in rows beneath an ornate Chinese gateway at night, gold characters on vertical signs either side and warm light spilling down.

Under the Lanterns

February 2018

1D X Mark II, 60 millimetres, f 4, 1/15 of a second, ISO 2000

Every one of them the same red.

Rows of them, all the same red, all lit from inside — the kind of subject that does not need much from a photographer beyond standing in the right place and pointing up. The gold lettering either side gives the frame its edges.