Dasquian Belargic
Nov 9th, 2010, 09:24:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/11/star-wars-dubai-desert/?pid=1658
In Cedric Delsaux's otherworldly photos, the United Arab Emirates serve as a surreal stand-in for Star Wars' extraterrestrial geography, with droids and spaceships tucked into desert vistas and building sites.
Delsaux's new show, The Dark Lens: Dubai Invasion, serves up striking images of the desert city's building boom that — with a little bit of photographic trickery — conjure stark alien vistas.
The photographer traveled to Dubai in February 2009 and spent 10 days shooting. "It is quite impossible for me to pinpoint the exact spots where my pictures were taken," he told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "Most of the locations I chose are anonymous and discovered by simply wandering around with my camera."
When Delsaux returned to Paris, he "rummaged around for figurines, toys and models," shooting the Star Wars gear in his studio before adding the spaceships and robots to the Dubai scenes he'd already captured. Check out this gallery for a closer look at the photographer's down-to-earth reimaginings of the Star Wars landscape.
Pretty cool.
In Cedric Delsaux's otherworldly photos, the United Arab Emirates serve as a surreal stand-in for Star Wars' extraterrestrial geography, with droids and spaceships tucked into desert vistas and building sites.
Delsaux's new show, The Dark Lens: Dubai Invasion, serves up striking images of the desert city's building boom that — with a little bit of photographic trickery — conjure stark alien vistas.
The photographer traveled to Dubai in February 2009 and spent 10 days shooting. "It is quite impossible for me to pinpoint the exact spots where my pictures were taken," he told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "Most of the locations I chose are anonymous and discovered by simply wandering around with my camera."
When Delsaux returned to Paris, he "rummaged around for figurines, toys and models," shooting the Star Wars gear in his studio before adding the spaceships and robots to the Dubai scenes he'd already captured. Check out this gallery for a closer look at the photographer's down-to-earth reimaginings of the Star Wars landscape.
Pretty cool.