Original post here. These images were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 035 – B-Movie Splashes.” Here is what Bacchus found.

These lovely, surreal, and futuristic photographs are 10 of 13 shots for a 2012 advertising calendar created by Dubai-based Indian photographer Tejal Palatni. The additional three are these:

The calendar site (a portfolio on Behance, a site for connecting freelance artists with work) offers all thirteen pictures in much higher resolution. The calendar was created for fashion brand Splash, and is explained thusly:

Heavily influenced by B-movie sci-fi clichés, the calendar asks: are we destined to revisit our same life choices, or will we truly create a new beginning?

For more information about the photographer, see this recent profile in ADL (Art – Design – Life) magazine. In it, Patni reveals that he learned to achieve the high contrast in his photos by shooting under mercury vapor lights from railway stations:

The reason I got noticed was only because (I had very little knowledge of light) I knew how to capture what looked good to my eye, so I started pushing black and white films to the max-3, 200-6,400 ASA and shoot my friends who posed as models under railway station (Mercury) lamps. I experimented a lot with those lamps and became quite an expert at shooting high contrast pics. Maybe that is one reason, my pics still remain dark.