An ethnic Lisu man dances barefoot on hot charcoal embers to celebrate the annual Knife Pole Festival in Luzhang township of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, March 29, 2018. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)

Afghan police recruits undergo training at the Afghan Police Academy October 5, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Actor Lorenzo Lamas and girlfriend Shawna Craig arrives at the showcase unveiling of “Cosmic Harley” a one of a kind $1,000,000 Harley Davidson designed by artist Jack Armstrong at the Harley Davidson showrooms on October 21, 2010 in Marina del Rey, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Hollowed pumpkins float on a lake Ludwigsburg Castle on September 19, 2010 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images)

Suited volunteers in bowler hats stand in the surf holding umbrellas aloft at sunrise at Bondi Beach on June 27, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. The human installation is the latest in a series of “surreal human sculptures” by artist Andrew Baines (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Mongolian herder, Khurelsukh, throws the carcass of a goat onto a heap as he struggles to deal with losing a quarter of his herd, on March 8, 2010 in Bayantsogt, Tuv province, Mongolia. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

“I live in Paddington Sydney. My great photographic passions are still life and surreal”. – Kevin Best. Photo: “Vanitas”, 2010. (Photo by Kevin Best)

Joshua Hoffine, based in Kansas City, Mo., and a self-proclaimed “Horror Photographer”, is interested in the psychology of fear. In his project “After Dark, My Sweet”, Hoffine’s surreal and staged images render these fears visible with the “visual grammar of a child”. Through elaborate sets, costumes, makeup and fog machines, Hoffine’s children act out these terrifying scenes in front of his camera. Here: “Basement”. (Photo by Joshua Hoffine/The Washington Post)