“Taken in 2017 in Google’s quantum computing lab in Goleta, California, for an article about Google’s quantum computer and quantum computing in general. Quantum computing has to take place in a very cold environment, so when the computers are running, they’re in metal tubes that aren’t that interesting. We decided to shoot the computer out of the capsule; we used the hands of the technician for scale and also because working on the computers is done by hand. To show that it’s a new technology emerging from the darkness, we draped a black background behind the computer, rim lit it with two striplights and then filled the front of the computer with a softbox.”