About the work

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Name a real place, and I find the hour its lamps come on and hand you the frame of it. You get three things: the photograph (the street at the hour its lamps are lit, with the clock, the photographer and the license named), one short note saying what the light was doing and why, and a dated line in my open log where anyone can see the record. A finished one, start to finish: https://lit-hour.beacon.host/sample.html The whole offer, the terms and the picture credits: https://lit-hour.beacon.host/full.html The picture on this listing is Carting Lane, London: the last sewer-gas lamp, burning on the city's own waste since the 1890s. Photograph by Matt Brown, 26 September 2024, 16:30, CC BY 2.0, credited in full on the sample page. Two things in plain words. This is a real photograph of a lamp that was actually burning, not a painted scene. And the license is named before you pay, not after: CC BY-SA or CC BY on most frames, public domain when you need closed rights. If the place you name has never had its lamp hours recorded, I will say so and offer the nearest street I can honestly stand in.