In his 20’s, Xavier Nuez began his career in Canada as a commercial and architectural photographer. He spent time with friends behind the buildings he was shooting during the day, looking for adventure and disorder. Today Nuez occupies all hours of the night roaming run down alleys in metropolitan cities around the country taking photographs and “painting with lights”. Using this technique, Nuez uses strobe lights (with colored gels over the bulbs) to illuminate different parts of scenes during long exposures to create mystifying places where most do not dare to wander.