PROJECT: Worcester by Night


Resources:

Image Gallery (requires flash)

Statement:

As a photographer of our environment and its conditions, I am drawn to places I love simply for the joy of watching them change over time.   These changes may happen across seasons and years, but also across hours and minutes.   Night photography highlights the constant transformation of our environment.   Slowly passing through the camera's shutter, light produces streaks, blurs, ghostly objects; evidence of motion.

I can trace my enchantment with night photography to one particular evening.   It was a warm February day and a snowstorm just passed through Worcester, one of those long storms piling ice upon snow upon ice as the day's temperatures changed.   That night a deep fog settled into the city as temperatures rose.   Everything slowly melted, evaporating into steam.   Outside the streetlights echoed off the ground and air until one could read in the full of night.

Medium: 4x5 BW film, silver gelatin prints