Night Garden
For the span of one summer, I photographed my mother’s Canadian, country garden while she slept inside. I had never photographed at night before, so for much of the project I felt I was stumbling through the unknown, blindly surrendering to whatever fortune or accident would bestow. I experimented with lightning storms, the phases of moonlight, porch-light, with varied exposure times, never using flash, thought sometimes holding a pocket flashlight to help coax out the darkness. I used different cameras, analog, digital and pinhole during the long exposures, my finger on the shutter, tracking time. If felt a bit like catching fireflies, amdist the fierce mosquitos and not-so-fierce, yet still unnerving, night critters - badgers, fox, deer in the woods. Meanwhile, my mother, a passionate gardener, slept, while her body battled terminal cancer. This series of photographs, sparsely punctuated by words, tells a subtle yet universal story contemplating love, loss and our place in the universe.
Published by Datz Press, Korea, 2015. Edition of 300. Monograph, with afterword by Dr. Anthony Bannon.
9 1/2 x 12", 106 pages, hardcover, color, offset printing, sewn binding. See more images here.
Night Garden - Collector's Book - comes with signed, limited edition print: (More) Many Moons, 8.5x11" archival pigment print (edition of 25). SOLD OUT