Radiant Ether


  • Photographer
    Brad Carlile
  • Prize
    Official Selection
  • Date of Photograph
    2025
  • Technical Info
    1 sec to 1/20sec, ISO1600, f4.5

We're tightly packed with fireworks exploding all around. The chaos is both dangerous and exciting. These explosions create an engaging mix of color, light, and energy. The colors in these images are intentionally inverted, like a film camera’s color negatives, no other manip. Vibrant hues transform into soft pastels, and once-familiar shapes now reveal the subconscious. By using color negatives, we also play on the idea of “negative”—how it can shift perception, turning positives into negatives or vice versa. Do these color-negative images of explosions act as a Rorschach test for our times?

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