Traffic Light Photography

A moody, thoughtful photography project to cheer up your Friday.

Lucas Zimmerman has chosen the most inane object as the focal point for his project: the traffic light. The traffic light is an everyday item that you most probably won’t remark upon when passing by, they are omnipresent in society, something we see but don’t look at, recognise but barely notice. Yet, Zimmerman loves to photograph the banal; by making the banal the focus, it subsequently loses its banality and forces you to analyse and look at it objectively; an interesting concept.

So, for his traffic light project, Zimmerman wanted to capture the effect these little machines have when their lights illuminate in a thick fog (not quite a pea-souper but getting there) and wanted to encapsulate the details of the colours as they glow in the gloom. What it results in is a mysterious and slightly eerie set of photographs, set on a seemingly deserted road, with a beautiful, three-coloured afterglow that seems to sit comfortably on top of the thick fog.

It’s a somehow soothing project that’s beautiful to look at. Check out the photos below.