NASA

Fishing Boats

Fishing boats lit green off western India, their lamps rigged to pull the catch to the surface, photographed at night from orbit.

Fishing Boats and City Lights
Fishing Boats and City Lights
Fishing Boats and City Lights shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Fishing Boats and City Lights shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Fishing Boats and City Lights shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
45 × 30 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work
Fishing Boats and City Lights

A chain of green lights stands off India's west coast, out in the dark of the Arabian Sea. The green comes from fishing boats. The colour is deliberate: high-intensity lamps draw squid, shrimp, sardines and mackerel toward the surface, into reach of the boats' lines and nets. Behind the boats the coastline is lit gold, with white at the brightest city cores.

One squid boat can carry more than a hundred lamps. A single boat can give off as much light as a house. The photograph was made from the International Space Station, 417 kilometres up. Crews on the station have made hundreds of thousands of images of Earth, used to track how cities spread and to study what artificial light does to the life beneath it.

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Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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