Zafri Yussoff:

Various media have depicted what the future could look like. Some portray it as post-apocalyptic, a dystopia, or in neon. The latter has always been the most intriguing to me, as it gives a mysterious but technological feeling.
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To create these images, I combined the photo acquisition of infrared with neon glow effects, through Adobe Photoshop. The purpose of infrared is to capture the natural light of any subject in a wavelength that is invisible to the human eye. The best time to capture infrared photos is at noon, on a sunny day in the spring or summer. The final aesthetic of each would result in monochrome, instead of color.
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With the neon glow effects, learning a new technique in Photoshop was easy. I used the pen tool and set it to the color white. Next, I precisely clicked to pinpoint each corner or curve on any line that I saw. Finally, with each line finished, I set the outer glow effect to the color of my choosing, such as blue and pink. The consistency of them was important because this aesthetic was heavily inspired by the movie Blade Runner and video game Cyberpunk 2077, in which both are set in the future, featuring neon and noir respectively. Likewise, I chose the remaining colors to have a subtle presence, acting as the background.

Another reason for this aesthetic came from listening to lofi music and synthwave music (electronic microgenre). Whenever I listened, they would be interpreted as electronically peaceful and calming. With the presence of these luminous lights, the monochrome aesthetic allows me to see the world in a different way.