It was interesting to look at the Robert Brook photos on the less-light site. I wouldn’t describe them as being made by taking away daylight so much as that they are made with artificial light-light from man-made sources. I also don’t think that these photos give life to inanimate objects. So many of them show empty roads, walls and fences. It is a bleak unpopulated post-industrial world, the sterile world that Edensor hates. No romance of the ruin here. Just asphalt.

There are a couple of night photographers whose work I really love. One is O. Winston Link. He was an early pioneer of night photography inventing some flash techniques. While I couldn’t find a great source for his work, there are some images here:

http://www.danzigergallery.com/artists/owinston-link/16

I don’t know if you could consider the train  in Link’s a “mediator” or just an obsession.

Completely different is Todd Hido. I recently took a class to see some shows in Chelsea and we saw his recent work and the students didn’t like it at all but every one of them could identify the mood of the pictures as sad and desolate.

http://www.toddhido.com

Click on the link homes at night. Using the color of the light and the weather, he infuses ordinary residential buildings with a good deal of emotion.

And while I am at it, two of my favorite photographer’s of ruins are:

Andrew Moore-the detroit series in particular

http://www.andrewlmoore.com/photography/detroit/

Robert Polidori-Chernobyl, Katrina

Google robert polidori chernobyl and select images.