A photograph is several hours pretending to be one.
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500gsm · 100% cotton · Hahnemühle Photo Rag · Archival pigment inks · 6 × 18 cm · Matte finish.
Night Watch series · 11 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 054 of 100.
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There are seconds that contain hours. The look across the table that settles a five-year argument without a word. The thirty seconds after a child is born when the people in the room rearrange their whole lives without quite knowing it. The minute at the end of a goodbye when nothing else gets said. Image and time do not always agree about scale. The picture sometimes holds more than the picture shows.
Above a forest in the temperate zone, a camera was left looking at the north star for several hours. The stars revolved, the pole stood still, the tree below stood still. By morning the trail of every star had been written into a circle. The print is the night, condensed into something you can hold in a book.
A natural fit for The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks by Brian Eno, or any book closed at three in the morning.
The world looks different once the day is done. Distance changes. Shapes turn into silhouettes and then back into shapes again as the moon moves into a clearing. The light that remains comes from headlights, lamp posts, fire, and the moon, and each of these has its own opinion about the landscape. Stay out long enough and the night stops being something that ended your day and starts being a place of its own.
