Night occupies a prominent space in the murky area between dreams and reality. But night is a tricky canvas. When our vision is obscured, we misperceive our surroundings, and things don’t always add up. The interplay of light and movement can distort our perception and our awareness. Yet our innate powers of pattern recognition enable us to stitch together a sense of place or even intuit an emotion from the barest of details. These nocturnal images spotlight our urban anxieties — and false impressions that can happen in the blink of a shutter.
Work from the series Unrealized was selected by The Photo Review, a publication, in 2018, and juried competitions in both 2018 and 2019 by Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon. In April 2019, four of these images appeared in a BAPC group show at the Dohjidai gallery in Kyoto, Japan — part of KYOTOGRAPHIE (KG+) international photography festival. In January, 2020, a photo from the series called Hesitation earned first place in an L.A. Photo Curator competition in January called “No Happy Accidents.”
The Unrealized images were shot primarily in San Francisco, Oakland and Southern California in 2017, 2018 and 2019.