West of IJsselstein, near Utrecht, lies a vast area, the Lopikerwaard. Overcome by the darkness in the night-time, photographer Merlijn van der Wardt created the series “Lights that leave the night intact.” The experience of these nocturnal adventures comes to form in this publication and reflects the vastness of the dark landscape to which man is only represented by small lights neatly on the distant horizon. As a border between two large dark spaces and a baseline grid throughout the book.