Julien Mauve imagines our first steps on the great red planet in photo series ‘Greetings From Mars’

Posted in Art, Photography
By Sam Bathe on 28 May 2015

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As humanity gets ever more ambitious with space exploration, and film’s like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar propose a future where we will have to move away from Earth, Julien Mauve‘s photo series imagines what our first steps might be like on the red planet, Mars. Titled Greetings From Mars, two interplanetary tourists pose in locations carefully chosen by Julient for their likeness to what we know of Mars’ locales.

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Check out more of Julien’s photography on his site: www.julienmauve.com

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