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Light Photography with @dariustwin

To see more of Darren’s light illustrations, follow @dariustwin on Instagram.

When it comes to light illustrations, Darren Pearson (@dariustwin) plays both photographer and magician, achieving a how-did-he-do-it aesthetic by merging surrealism with technological prowess.

“I just like looking at the back of the camera and not knowing what’s going to appear,” says the 31-year-old Los Angeles-based artist, who creates his dreamy, hallucinatory photos using long exposure, a tripod, and a LED light he fashions himself. “If it appears way better than what I was thinking, that’s like, ah! That’s a victory!”

Darren began exploring light-work eight years ago after spotting a long exposure photo of Pablo Picasso taken by LIFE magazine photographer Gjon Mili in 1949. In it, the Spanish painter stands shirtless while wielding a light that traces a path in the air. “I was like, ‘What the heck is this?’” says Darren. “It kind of blew my mind.”

Darren’s first light illustration experiments began with stick figures. He eventually graduated to more intricate characters — dinosaurs and skeletons in particular, having them dance across expansive desert landscapes, wading through beachfront locations and perching themselves above city skylines.

“I was a kid just looking up in natural history museums, just being totally overwhelmed and inspired and awe-struck at these huge beasts that lived on Earth,” says Darren, describing his inspiration for drawing prehistoric creatures. As for the skeletons, “It’s a very expressive way to place a human being in a photograph,” he says. “There’s no race or gender or specific thing. This is a universal thing that we all have.”

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I don’t feel like a gay icon. I don’t feel like an icon at all. Every single interview was always, ‘What’s it like to play a gay character?’ It would be nice if I was never asked that again. Why isn’t anyone asking the other girls what it’s like to kiss a boy?

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Art fair sunset. Only in LA (at Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair)

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Piecing together the world with photographer @alexiawebster

To see more of Alexia’s photographs from her assignments and travels, follow @alexiawebster on Instagram.

“Photography has been a way of representing and documenting not just the world around me, but also a way of capturing the world we dream and imagine — the world inside ourselves,” says Alexia Webster (@alexiawebster), a Johannesburg-born photojournalist who now lives in Cape Town.

Alexia’s path to photography came via her mom, social historian Luli Callinicos, who writes about the neglected history of the apartheid-era working class. “I would spend hours looking through her vast collection of historical photos, imagining that world, piecing together the story of my city and my country,” says Alexia. “When I turned 16, she bought me a camera and I began piecing together the world with my own images.”

Alexia travels around the African continent and beyond, on assignments and for personal projects. “The images in my feed are like scribbles in a notebook or fragments of a journal about my life and my travels,” she says. “I capture the things around me that move and intrigue me, the bits of magic I encounter on my journeys.”

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Winter under Brooklyn Bridge. New York.

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Mini deep dish pizzas

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPmystery

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

The goal this weekend is to capture creative photos and videos that convey a sense of mystery. Some tips to get you started:

Mystery often stems from unanswered questions. Think of your photo or video as a moment from a story that will leave your viewer wondering, “What happens next?”

Certain locations lend themselves well to a sense of mystery. Overgrown landscapes or buildings with histories of their own can be great starting points for your setting.

Finally, remember that a large part of mystery comes from the unknown. Experiment with shadows and obscured subjects or explore other visual ways to hint that there is more to the story outside the frame.

PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPmystery hashtag only to photos and videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own photographs and videos to the project. Any tagged image or video taken over the weekend is eligible to be featured Monday morning.