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view profile xdjio (a group admin) says:
15 Jul 09 - Hi everyone! Please have a look at the group's guidelines or rules if you're unsure about what is ok to submit, and what is not. In a word: if it's strangely, unsettlingly empty (no people at all) then that is what we're looking for.

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quiet earth cform 4 12 months ago
Giant Empty Chinese Mall rakerman 2 17 months ago
Earth without People rakerman 5 19 months ago
Utopia or Dystopia? olicow 3 19 months ago
New Group Announcement: Imminent Arrival HighPlainsDrifter Photography 2 19 months ago
Music that fits the bill xdjio 61 24 months ago

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About The Last Person On Earth

Remember that great dream sequence in Abre los Ojos or Vanilla Sky where the main character gets up in the morning, gets in his car, and realizes that everyone is gone? This group is for photos taken in a style that makes your city (or even the world) look empty - like everyone just up and vanished.

So, the most obvious requirement is that there are no people in your photos, and nothing that seems to indicate people moving around in the picture. No people, because you (the photographer) are the last person on earth. Cities and urban areas are encouraged, nature and rural scenes rarely capture this particular brand of eerieness very well. Ideally, your photo will have an unusually pronounced or unsettling "post-apocalyptic", "empty" or "desolate" mood to it.

Please no photoshopped images either. Images that primarily feature places we'd not expect to see people, like "the sky" or "the sides of buildings" or "empty expanses of water" don't usually work without some supporting context. The reason is that it is not unusual for there to be "no people" in these places. Unusual is what we want:

A good summary of the group focus is "...that it has more to do with capturing an image that shows an unusual moment. An empty area that is normally full always stands out because we expect it to be populated."

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