Reuben Wu

Wow, the prints completely sold out in pre-sales before it got to public launch! Thank you to everyone who picked up a print

📢I'm excited to announce that I'm launching my first ever timed limited edition of a physical print tomorrow (Thursday) at 12pm CST

ESCAPE VELOCITY is one of the strongest images from my Lux Noctis series - my most recognisable body of work, and it'll only be available for five days. If you've ever wondered or asked me about prints, this is your chance to collect one at an affordable price!

This print will be available in two sizes in editions of 69 and 28, plus a larger statement piece in an edition of 3, in framed and unframed options, each with NFC & blockchain registered Certificates of Authenticity.

ESCAPE VELOCITY will be the only piece in this five day print drop, and I don’t know when it will be available again.

Check out the link posted below to access the drop tomorrow at 10am PST, 12pm CST, 1pm EST, and 5pm GMT.

Subscribers to my mailing list received an exclusive early access link to the drop, thank you for all the orders so far ;)

Free art print giveaway!

I’m giving away a very special signed fine art print of “Charge” to a lucky winner.

Why is it special? Because to me this image is emblematic of my visual language and why I do what I do. The feeling of holding this print, knowing I went to this faraway place to create the art, is incomparable.

This will be the only chance you’ll be able to acquire it. All you need to do is to like, share this post and follow the link below to sign up for my new mailing list. You’ll be the first to see new work, get notified of upcoming print releases, and be eligible for print giveaways.

If you sign up before March 20th, you have a chance to win this signed print. I'll choose someone at random from my mailing list after 2 weeks and send this print to them. Good luck 🍀

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Happy Valentine's Day. Love what you do. If you don’t, you’ll never be bothered to do it enough, you’ll never think about it enough, you’ll never push yourself or work hard enough to get where you want to be.

Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest dry lake, is also the world's largest mirror at night.

Deep inside the ravines of the Tabernas Desert in Spain, I photographed this beautifully-restored Mercedes 280 GE that Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur drove to victory in the legendary Paris-Dakar Rally 40 years ago, for the new G-Class 2024 calendar.

The daytime was spent location-scouting and establishing camera and car positions and planning logistics of moving the production through 3 locations inside a very narrow ravine.

The time lapse video shows the process at nighttime shooting this particular image. The moon rising above the mountains was unplanned!

Happy holidays, everyone!

The Inner Landscape ❍
Two images shot side-by-side on the iPhone, in collaboration with Apple.

Have you ever seen the aurora? I've watched it many times but I still can't get enough of it. Fingers crossed for more in 2024.

This series was photographed in Arctic Svalbard, so far north you have to look *south* to see the Northern Lights, and the days are a gorgeous perpetual sunrise and sunset.

This trip was also memorable to me because I lost my wallet in the plane and had to rely on the kindness of friends to get me by for the whole duration :'D

Day & Night at Stonehenge
Shot on a Phase One XT + 23mm lens 📷
DJI Mavic Enterprise for aerial lighting ⚡️

Have you ever looked at the sky after sunset and noticed a warm glowing band of pink in the sky? It’s called The Belt of Venus or Antitwilight Arch, and it’s probably my favourite phenomenon to watch during sunset.

As the sun drops below the horizon, the Earth’s shadow is cast into the sky as a dark blue band. Rising with it is a vibrant band of pink, its colour caused by backscattered sunlight off the Earth’s atmosphere.
The band rises and eventually dissipates until the entire sky is filled with dusk blue and the night gradually takes over.

For me, the beauty of a sunset is best appreciated not from watching it happen in front of me, but in completely the opposite direction, where the sublime interplay between light and shadow reveals itself only to those curious enough to look for it.

Journeying through Andalusia, Spain with 11 different vehicles from the legendary G-Class’ 44-year history, I was commissioned by Mercedes-Benz to shoot the official 2024 G-Class calendar.

Rather than capturing the iconic vehicle in a somewhat familiar landscape, I wanted to introduce the concept of the “unexplored planet” by photographing the vehicle at night, in remote and unearthly environments, and using my technique of drone-lighting to create uncommon images that have never been seen before.

Each image is a carefully planned composition of subject, environment and light, that took many hours of scouting, testing and shooting into the early hours to tell a whole story in a single frame about each model of the G-Class.

I approach every shoot like an adventure. Amazing locations, fantastic team of people to work with, and a challenge which was not only ambitious, but also incredibly exciting and fun to take on.

Client: Mercedes-Benz
Agency: Team X Worldwide
Executive Producer: Kristina Hicks / IMI Artists
Location Scout and Local Production: Los Locations Spain
Producer: Gavin Harrison
Post Production: Digital Giant
Digital Tech: Jan Gehrke
1st Assistant: Dani Wallwork
Drone Tech: FlyRCVision

Asus - Reuben Wu Client: Asus Agency: Looping Group Production: Modest Department Starring: Reuben Wu, Zachary Henderson,Kveta Kubus Director: Maros Milčík DoP: Anna Smoroňová Photographer:…