You can appreciate a slight light-brown-ish look in skin tones and in most other colours, the slow fade to dark in the silhouettes of the subjects and the almost zero quantity of light the camera is picking up from the background (unless it's bright, like buttons and panels).
Examples:
Answer
They were probably shot close up with a bare on camera flash.
The inverse square law is a wonderful thing - get your flash twice as close and it effectively becomes four times as bright. Four times closer and it's sixteen times as bright. Getting a black background is just a case of getting close enough so that the flash is so much brighter than the ambient that it appears black.
The images have likely been processed with the black-point raised (to "crush the blacks", i.e. make any parts of the background that are showing up dimly go to pure black), and then the contrast as been reduced slightly so the pure black areas have gone very dark grey.
The white balance is set to very warm with a bias toward green, which accounts for the colours you are seeing.
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