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“What happens to lovers while they are sleeping?”

The answer could be in this fascinating series of long exposure pictures by Austrian photographer Paul Schneggenburger.

These photographs are shot in the photographer’s spare bedroom against a backdrop of black sheets lit by Christmas lights.

Curious about how people behave when they are asleep, Schneggenburger set up a six-hour exposure camera that works from midnight to 6am to record the ‘nocturnal lovers’ dance’.”