Into The Night

In the 90s I started making images of empty city streets at night for a project on my photography degree in Sunderland. The need to create images at night became a partial necessity as my semi-nocturnal student lifestyle made it hard during the winter months to be up and about during the daylight. There was also a desire to capture the beauty and quiet of a city in the middle of the night, to make images that reflected the silence and peace I experienced when walking home from friends’ houses at 3 in the morning. 

I started to create images of empty streets, avoiding the cliched car light trails. I wanted to capture the feeling of being alone in spaces that would normally be full of people. It was both the aesthetic as well as the sense of loneliness that I wanted to put into my images.