According to the photographer’s statement on his website: “Some of his pictures can be compared with stills from films such as Blade Runner, Tron, or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Louis is inclined to concentrate on two specific colours, mixing them much as a film will. Tron’s spartan colouring on its monochrome film sets keep the colours simple, single or separate. Louis’ girl looking out of a window uses this technique where the overall colour is orange. However Louis gives his photograph depth by using a thin horizontal line of a pale blue reflection above the girl’s hair, giving the photo a fully 3D effect. Tron on the other hand is a 2D universe.

“In Blade Runner, the colour mixtures are far subtler and fluid, especially in the close-up portrait shots such as that of Rutger Hauer. One in particular, in the latter part of the film (by which time the audience if fully aware that Rutger is a man-made replicant) portray him in a combination of metallic light blue mixed with red blood – machine and man. The man has become a ‘bloodied’ machine….that’s what it is to be a slave. Louis frequently mixes two colours, often orange and blue, to humanize or distance, contrast or overlap, using a series of reflections to give depth or suggest sequence, such as the photo of a man in tonal blues with numerous blue reflected highlights, the word COFFEE in bright neon orange.”