It started with one photograph. I made a single image of the Philadelphia skyline at sunrise from the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and when I saw it I wanted to know what the next morning would look like. Then the one after that.
So I went back. For the 31 mornings of May 2024, I returned to the same step and photographed the same skyline at sunrise. Same spot, same framing, same focal length. The camera never moved. This was not a time-lapse. Each morning I set up the camera by hand and rebuilt the photograph from the same spot.
I chose this iconic skyline on purpose. The familiar view is the constant, and an unfamiliar one would only have gotten in the way. With everything else locked in place, I let the light become the only variable, making it the subject of this series. Light shapes form, defines structure, and changes how we see everything it touches.
I work in black and white to remove the distraction of color. With color gone, attention goes to tone, contrast, and gradation, and each skyline is defined by the light of that morning.
No two photographs are the same, even though every one is of the identical view. Held to a single frame across 31 days, the small shifts in sun, cloud, fog, and air become visible, and a familiar skyline starts to look new. We pass the same places every day and stop seeing them. This series asks you to slow down and look again.
Seen together, the 31 mornings hold one quiet truth: each is a moment that will never happen again.
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