Light is part of various disciplines, shaping the world as we know it. In physics, it serves as a measure of speed and makes vision, and the recording of images by the eye and camera lens possible.

Between Shadow and Light probes Maryann Thompson’s commitment to an architecture that is sustainable and regionally driven and her penchant for heightening the experiential qualities of each project ...

Nestled in Telangana, the 11th-century Chaya Someswara Temple is a marvel of optical illusion. A mysterious shadow, resembling a pillar, falls on the Shiva Linga all day, yet no actual pillar exists.

“We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates,” Jun'ichiro Tanizaki writes in his 1933 essay In Praise of ...