Flags in infrared are a long-running project for me. Infrared photography shifts the camera's view just slightly to the side of the visible realm, and most objects are still immediately recognizable. (The main difference is that living foliage is highly infrared-reflective, leading to agricultural and military surveillance applications which are the normal domains of infrared photography.)

All photos in this series include flags or flag imagery, even if they are rendered invisible by the IR frequency cutoff.

But dyes and pigments behave unpredictably, which can result in the erosion or total eradication of meaning for even the most legible and defined symbols we have available, national flags. Exactly how a flag will photograph in infrared depends on the materials used and the lighting conditions.

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