A long, empty corridor inside a deserted shopping mall with reflective tiled floors and dim, atmospheric lighting.

A ghostly reflection of a person appears on the window of an empty, carpeted room with white pillars.

An empty, overgrown parking lot with a handicapped sign sits under a cloudy sky with overhead power lines.

A look through a glass storefront into an empty and dated commercial space with tiled flooring and decorative pillars.

A grand, curved staircase with beige tiles and a silver metal handrail winds upwards inside a large building.

Warm sunlight casts long shadows across the checkered tile floor of a quiet and empty multi-level building atrium.

The desolate and empty food court of an abandoned shopping mall sits silent under fluorescent lights.

A yellow caution sign stands on a patterned tile floor inside an empty mall with a sunbeam shining on a tiled wall.

Sunlight streams through skylights onto the tiled floor of a quiet and empty shopping mall atrium.

The eerily quiet and deserted interior of a shopping mall with closed storefronts and a central escalator leading up to the food court.

Empty wooden shelves and fixtures inside a deserted and dimly lit retail store.

An expansive and mostly deserted food court inside a shopping mall features retro decor and rows of empty tables.

The empty interior of a vintage shopping mall with a geometric patterned tile floor and a complex ceiling with hanging lights.

An empty corridor on the upper level of a deserted shopping mall, with a lone 'FUN' banner hanging from the ceiling.

The empty and desolate interior of an abandoned shopping mall with a central glass elevator and closed storefronts.

A solitary potted plant stands in the middle of a deserted shopping mall hallway with closed storefronts and a sign pointing to the food court.

The empty two-story atrium of a shopping mall is lit by large skylights and decorated with hanging string lights.

A large, empty atrium features a colorful circular pattern on the tiled floor and a sweeping curved staircase.

The empty two-story atrium of an abandoned shopping mall features a patterned floor, columns, and hanging decorations from the ceiling.

Kelsey Smith

After Hours is an ongoing series about American spaces once everyone's gone. Malls, motels, parking structures, offices. Places built to be full of people, photographed empty. There's film texture to all of it and a washed out, quiet palette that leans more toward mood than polish. The images are still, a little nostalgic, and sometimes a little off.

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