(CNN)If you went to Mars, would you take a selfie?
In his photo series "Greetings from Mars," photographer Julien Mauve imagines life as a tourist on the Red Planet -- selfie-stick and all.
The irreverent photos were awarded the 2016 Sony World Photography Award for professional conceptual photography.
CNN Style spoke to Mauve to find out why he turned his lens to life on mars.
Are your photos meant to communicate a message about the world as it is, or the world as it might be?
Both I suppose. It"s a humorous way of showing how we are today while making us think of what the world could become in the future.
"Greeting from Mars" borders fiction and documentary. How is this relationship important to you?
I want the world that I create to stay as close to reality as possible. That way the audience feels that my photographic world is something they could have experienced themselves.
What feelings do you hope this collection evokes in its audience?
One guy told me that he saw the "Mars" project as an expression of unconditional love. That was not my first intention, but in fact I was the one wearing one of the suits and my wife was the other. At some point I even thought about calling the project "Honeymoon on Mars." So I was really glad this guy was able to catch this unconscious aspect of my work.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/arts/greetings-from-mars-selfies-julien-mauve/index.html
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