Light pollution on archival print from the archive of Charles Marville (1813-1879).

In the series ‘Lightfall‘, Österholm takes it one step further and directly confronts the skyscapes with imagery of gas lanterns. Here he subverts photographs of Charles Marville, the official photographer of Paris who was tasked with documenting the rapidly changing city in the 1860s and 70s. Unknowingly to Marville these images of the new lightning apparatuses that dissolved the gloom of the city’s alleyways and brought splendor to its new boulevards, also act as a starting point for the widespread introduction of light pollution that today obscures our vision of the night sky.