Where the LightLands
One evening, four years long.
Four frames of light meeting water, shot between 2021 and 2025, and sequenced by the clock rather than the calendar. Read top to bottom, they make a single afternoon going down into night: silver, then gold, then ember, then moon.
16:57
Silver Hour
8 April 2023
Cloud cover turns the late sun into one wide white spill. The sea breaks it into a field of points, and a single shaft still slips through at the top of the frame.
- Camera
- iPhone 13 Pro Max · 5.7 mm
- Exposure
- ƒ/1.5 · 1/66,667 s · ISO 50
18:16
Swimmers' Gold
20 September 2021
Haze flattens the sky to a single wash. The sun lays a road across three sets of breakers, and the swimmers, the gulls and one far sail all share it.
- Camera
- iPhone 11 Pro Max · 6 mm
- Exposure
- ƒ/2.0 · 1/6,849 s · ISO 20
18:41
Through the Pilings
17 September 2021
The sun drops behind the pier's cross-bracing and the whole structure goes to silhouette. Only the water keeps its detail, lit copper where the light comes through.
- Camera
- iPhone 11 Pro Max · 6 mm
- Exposure
- ƒ/2.0 · 1/1,410 s · ISO 20
22:16
Buck Moon
10 July 2025 · Hudson River
July's full moon through a veil of cloud over Hudson Yards. The towers are lit floor by floor, and the river drags their light toward the lens.
- Camera
- iPhone 15 Pro Max · 6.77 mm
- Exposure
- ƒ/1.78 · 1/20 s · ISO 1000
Approach
Sequenced by the clock, not the calendar. The frames span four years and three phones. Laid out by time of day, they read as one continuous evening, and the horizon, always in frame, is the thread that ties them together.
Phone, found light, no fill. Every frame was made on an iPhone, facing into the light source. Nothing was added; the only choices were where to stand and when.
- 16:571/66,667 s
- 18:161/6,849 s
- 18:411/1,410 s
- 22:161/20 s