Through her work she investigates and explores how the cityscape both reflects and affects human condition. Luxemburg takes photographs at night on the edge of the centre of the city using long exposure that allow her to use the light emanating form the street only – from office blocks and street lights.
'(...) it is hard for me to photograph places where I don’t have that feeling or relation'.
The rich tones of orange and yellow and green in her images, make her work recognisable in an instant. The lighting of other places around the subject, emphasise the atmosphere but also bring out the themes of her images. Not only obviously portraying what she has noticed but allowing the reader the time to notice it.
The long exposure of the image creates a sense that the glow of the lights allow the viewer when looking at the image more time to look at them.
'I think the sculptural quality of the block is what makes the picture work. The lights break up the grid, but at the same time they are little illuminations, which tell us about the people who live there. While the camera shutter was open, people came home and turned their lights on or off. The brightest rooms either had their lights on for the longest, or they had stronger lights. And in some, you can see people watching television. In that sense, the picture is a living sculpture.'
Rut Blees Luxemburg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/23/rut-blees-luxemburg-best-shot-photography
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