Night & Day

In Night & Day I capture the transition from day to night in various locations around the world. The photos are composed of numerous exposures shot at the same location over the course of a single day or over several days. I then merge the multiple day, dusk, and night exposures into a seamless transition which collapses the temporal element and allows the viewer to see the city in a new way. In preparing each scene I decide where the transition should begin and end, and in which direction time should flow. I base these decisions on visual instinct and what looks most natural to me and I often introduce an element of randomness into the scene by allowing one time to bleed into another. At times the borders between day and night collide head on, and other times they tiptoe into one another. It is the details, however, that add a sense of incongruity to the photos and challenge the viewer to find where one time frame ends and the other begins: traffic light trails that fade into day on the span of the Brooklyn Bridge, a tourist standing on a Segway in broad daylight, while just a few feet away the rest stand in darkness, the glimmering lights of Midtown reflected in the Pond at mid-day. In Night & Day I am concerned less with capturing the passage of time than capturing the incongruous and ephemeral nature of time.

Andrew Prokos is an award-winning architectural and fine art photographer based in New York City. His framed art prints have been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, 21_21 Design Sight Museum Tokyo, Banco do Brasil, and in photography galleries and art collections in USA, UAE & Europe.