Photographer Dan Tobin Smith used footage of more than 100 gemstones, blown up to 60 times their size, to create an immersive installation in the basement of Collins Music Hall for London Design Festival.
The focal point of Void was a square of screens, set on a raised platform in the centre of the room, with each screen giving visitors a glimpse into the varied inner life of different crystals.
Projected on to the screens were extremely close-up images of the kaleidoscopic worlds hidden within each stone, recreated on a vast scale.

"I discovered that filming [the stones] made them really come alive," Tobin Smith told Dezeen. "And in the end I thought it would be a shame to just leave them as films, so the idea of an installation started taking shape." London design studio The Experience Machine was tasked with displaying the films in the subterranean concrete space, which was achieved through the 360-degree screen set-up.

The light projections captured on the central cube of screens were a visual representation of gemstone inclusions ? other elements that become encased within the crystal during its formation.

For two special performances during the festival, Void's otherworldly nature was underscored by an eery chorus of layered female voices courtesy of the electronic drone choir NYX.
"I felt that the human voice would work well with the inclusions because they are these tiny, imperfect but beautiful things," said Tobin Smith. "I lik...