Night Life

Photography on cotton rag paper.

30.50x24x1"

Limited edition 1 of 10.

We lived on Twin Pine Hill when I made this photograph. I stepped outside one winter night and looked down at Old Town, and the cold was the kind that makes everything go quiet — the air, the town, everything. Yellowknife's winter nights are long and dark, and the light below seemed all the more precious for it. Small pockets of warmth against an enormous darkness.
There is something about knowing a place intimately that changes how you photograph it. This wasn't a scene I discovered — it was a view I lived with. The stillness in this image is the stillness I felt standing there, the town carrying on in its quiet way far below, the cold making everything sharp and present.

Part of my Life in the Knife series, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.