INfrared is a photographic project exploring the tradition of Vreugdevuur Scheveningen, a huge annual bonfire competition between two neighborhoods in The Hague, Netherlands: Scheveningen-Dorp and Duindorp. The tradition traces the origins of bonfires in the area back to a 1585 celebration when Robert Dudley arrived in Holland, however, the modern event has roots in the aftermath of World War II, when local youths turned post-war trauma into an annual rite by collecting and burning Christmas trees while shouting "Raus!"— a reclaiming of a word shouted by Nazi occupiers. Over time, this developed into massive, organized bonfire battles, with huge towers of wooden pallets being constructed and set alight on New Year's Eve. The piles can be as tall as 30-metre-high. For this project I’ve documented this intense and chaotic event capturing the community spirit, violence, history, and spectacle tied to the tradition, but with the twist of never actually showing the tower on fire but rather how this paints everything around it in the colour red.