At night, a stark line cuts across the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Suspended fifteen feet up in the trees, it stretches across the swamp, visible through long exposure. It comes from the high-powered LED lights of the Folkston ICE Processing Center, nine miles away. The complex includes a federal prison and detention centre with capacity for 2,067 people in a town of 4,736.

Across the United States, around 45,000 people are held in ICE detention, often in facilities built within the last fifteen years and lit by powerful commercial LEDs that radiate across surrounding landscapes.

For four years, I have photographed how these centres shape the environments around them. Their remote locations obscure them in plain sight, raising ethical concerns.

Restore the Night Sky aims to expose the treatment of asylum seekers, question detention practices, and return darkness to these landscapes.