Expired L.A. is an ongoing series of photographer Vicky Moon‘s exploration of Los Angeles at night. On her pink scooter and a camera with expired 4×5 film, she roams the streets of L.A. to capture the neon lights of liquor stores, motels, churches, etc.. The deep midnight blue atmosphere beautifully contrasts the electric pink and blue of the lights surrounding the palm trees. Vicky Moon is a Burbank native who studied fine art photography at Burbank Art Center. The rolls of expired film she uses to shoot her haunting images are almost as old as the signs of the dingy motels that have a hard time to keep the light on. She found the film at a flea market and found out that it was manufactured over 35 years ago. In order to get the images onto the stale film, she has to keep steady and keep the shutter of her camera open for as long as 45 minutes.

“At one point in time, these buildings could have been the center of attention, but now they’re not. They’re kind of over. They’re expired when you think about it.” – Vicky Moon