Visual artist and music producer Reuben Wu became a household name for his unique photos that combine lighted drone patterns with complete observations of natural land formations.
In his visual work, he’s inspired not only to create imagery but to explore new places particularly to the unnoticed and hidden locations.
His project, titled Lux Noctis, is an award-winning series of photographs portraying uncommon landscapes, “influenced by ideas of planetary exploration, 19th century sublime romantic painting, and science fiction,” his website reads.
As part of the series, Wu travelled to Peru to visit the Pastoruri Glacier, one of the remaining glaciers in South America’s tropical areas. It is located at 17,000 feet above sea level in the Cordillera Blance mountain range.
“I photographed Pastoruri glacier with conflicted feelings. I wanted to show evidence of its alarming retreat due to climate change. Yet, I was drawn to the epic scale of the existing ice which towered above. In the end I leaned to show the latter, but each photograph represents a bleak reality, a diminishing memory of what once stood,” he wrote on Instagram.
