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Photo credits
Every photograph on this site is a real place, and none was generated by AI. Almost all of them are figures from the two books, with the same credits the books carry.
Most come from Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay, whose licenses allow commercial use without attribution; the photographers are named anyway, here and under each picture. A few are from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licenses, and a few are the author's own. Pictures from Liminal Spaces marked black and white are shown as they appear in the print edition.
If you are a photographer whose picture appears here and would like a different credit, a link, or the picture removed, write to contact@liminalspacesbooks.com.
Pexels (27)
Used under the Pexels license.
- A yellow room seen past a pale foreground edge, with suspended strip lights receding toward a visible end wall and a low white platform along the right-hand wall. amon W.A, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- Two empty escalators rising side by side between concrete walls toward a lit landing, with strip lights along the ceiling. Brendan Rühli, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Shown in black and white, as printed. Source
- A single shopping cart standing in a fog-covered parking lot at night, cart corrals behind it and a line of lamps glowing and fading into the gray. Chris F, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Shown in black and white, as printed. Source
- Rows of plastic stadium seats stenciled with numbers, 66, 67, 68, climbing away from the camera, every one of them empty. Claudio Pires de Oliveira, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Shown in black and white, as printed. Source
- A parking deck in daylight, shot level with the far end well to the left. Openings, stair rails and stripes of sun repeat down the right side. Connor Scott McManus, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- A tiled underground passage curving away to the right under a line of fluorescent tubes, a gray door in the left wall and a floor of small diamond tiles, nobody in it. Daniil Ustinov, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- Looking down a stairway into a subway station between blue-gray tiled walls: handrails on both sides, a landing, a second short flight, and beyond it a passage with a yellow tactile strip running away under a single ceiling lamp. Duy Quang, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Changes: Straightened. Source
- A hotel corridor with lit ceiling panels, dark wainscoting and patterned carpet, a room-number plaque on the nearest door, a red fire extinguisher on the right wall, something left on the floor halfway down and an exit sign over a closed door at the end. Erik Mclean, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- A yellow-walled room, lit by one tall window of frosted glass. Faruk Tokluoğlu, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- A long hotel corridor with dark walls, framed doorways on both sides, white paneling below a rail, a ceiling lamp between each pair of doors and a patterned carpet running to a small lit doorway at the far end. frank minjarez, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Source
- A two-level mall concourse seen from the upper floor: blue railings around an open well, storefronts on both levels, several with their shutters down, and star-shaped skylights repeating toward the far end, nobody in it. Giant Asparagus, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- A reading hall in daylight with rows of wooden desks and dark red chairs, round skylights set into a dark ceiling, wooden shelving at the back with many shelves bare, plants along a counter at the right, and nobody at the desks. Grisha Grishkoff, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Cropped. Source
- A tiled cycle and foot tunnel curving away under a line of lights, a red cycle lane with white arrows running into the bend, nobody in it. Jan van der Wolf, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- An underground station hall with tall columns that flare out like funnels beneath the ceiling, strip lights overhead, lines set into a pale floor and an escalator and stairs at the far end, with nobody in it. Leonard Richards, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Source
- A long, narrow hotel corridor with white doors on both sides and a boldly patterned carpet, a few exit signs hanging from the dark ceiling and a small dark opening at the far end. Magda Ehlers, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Retouched for the book to remove a hotel name and a place name. Source
- Looking straight along a tiled walkway between two railings through a tall beige atrium, bridges and beams crossing overhead at intervals and repeating toward a far end, lit from above with no sky in view. Mahmoud Alaydi, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- An underground station hall with pale green tiled walls, two riveted square columns topped by flat lamps, a flat ceiling, a tiled floor and nobody in it. Mathias Sogorski, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Source
- An underground passage with pale green tiled walls under two lines of fluorescent tubes, a flight of steps rising at the far end and a barred window in the right wall, the tiled floor empty. Mathias Sogorski, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Changes: Retouched for the book to remove a person. Source
- A long corridor with peach walls, a pale yellow-and-gray striped carpet and soft ceiling lights, its far end washed in blue light around a bright window. Nurefşan KOŞAR, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- An underground station platform shot down its length: glass screen doors and blue station signs along the left, a walkway crossing overhead, and a tiled floor with an orange tactile strip running to one point in the distance, nobody waiting. phát hồ, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Changes: Cropped. Source
- A pale, high-ceilinged room with three tall arched windows, a radiator under one of them and a single wooden chair standing near the wall, the floor dusty and bare. Rene Terp, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- A playground at night in fog, lit by streetlights, with slides, a jungle gym and swings and nobody on the equipment; cars are parked beyond. Sami Abdullah, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Retouched for the book to remove a person (non-generative clone tool). Source
- Two escalators climbing out of a tiled underground passage, the walls and floor washed teal and violet, a pink glow on the steel between the escalators, nobody on them. SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Changes: Retouched for the book to remove a traveller. Source
- A laundromat's tiled ceiling with lines of fluorescent tubes above rows of red machines, the light even, flat and cool. Stephan, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- A covered pool under stone arches, three chairs set against the far wall beside a dark doorway, sunlight on the lightly rippled water and nobody in it. The Daphne Lens, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Shown in black and white, as printed. Source
- A small gas station canopy lit up at night, its pumps standing on a low island beneath it and the light spilling onto the paving around it, three traffic cones nearby, one lying on its side, and darkness on every side apart from a few faint lights at the right edge. Väinö Parjanen, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Retouched for the book to remove a fuel company's name and logos. Source
- An empty subway platform under cool blue-white light: a tiled pillar in the foreground, a long dark wall on the right with a strip of light above it, and the yellow platform edge running away into the distance. Zişan Özdemir, Pexels. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
Unsplash (2)
Used under the Unsplash license.
- A round indoor pool under glass-block windows and a beamed ceiling, with a hose on the wall, a ladder, steps and nobody in sight. Chelaxy Designs, Unsplash. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
- An indoor pool under a low white ceiling, seen from the deck beside a ladder. The water is still enough to mirror the columns, planters and far wall, and nobody is in it. Sandeep Vattapparambil, Unsplash. From Liminal Spaces Photography. Source
Pixabay (1)
Used under the Pixabay content license.
- A still indoor pool by a row of windows, a steel ladder and two lifebuoys on the deck, their reflections in the water. sahinsezerdincer, Pixabay. From Liminal Spaces. Source
Wikimedia Commons (1)
Used under the Creative Commons license named with each picture (CC BY 3.0, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0). Shown cropped or in black and white where noted in the books.
- The departures hall at Berlin Brandenburg on May 13, 2012, three weeks before the opening that was called off: a polished stone floor, rows of barrier posts, departure screens and check-in signs lit, a few seats and nobody waiting, with three workers in hard hats on the upper level. “120513-BER-innen” by Muns, Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY 3.0. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Converted to black and white.
National Maritime Museum (1)
Public domain. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
- The first-class swimming bath of the liner Aquitania in 1914: still, dark water between marble edges and fluted columns, ceiling lamps in a row, curtained cubicles along one side, a wicker chair near the far end and an empty gymnasium beyond. Bedford Lemere & Co., 1914, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, negative G10889. From Liminal Spaces. Changes: Negative edge and label cropped; black and white as printed. Source
The author's photographs (3)
Photographs by Aaron Wells.
- Concrete ramps crossing and doubling back through the dark core of 1933, the former Shanghai slaughterhouse, with patterned windows glowing at the edges. Aaron Wells. Changes: Contrast adjusted.
- Three lit windows on one floor of an office tower at night, desks, chairs, monitors and partitions inside, nobody visible at any of them, the floors above and below dark. Aaron Wells. From Liminal Spaces.
- A long outdoor pool on a podium beside a wet laneway and an office tower, seen from high above at night in the rain, its underwater lights fanning across the floor of the pool, nobody in it or in the lane. Aaron Wells. From Liminal Spaces.