The Edges of Night: Dawn and Dusk

The edges of night, dawn and dusk, are magical times for photographers. From the rosy first light of early morning to the flickering lights of evening, the edges of night offer photographers opportunities to create suggestive, evocative, and moody images of the world. We were pleased to welcome back the extraordinary photographer, writer, and educator Sean Kernan as the juror for this exhibition. For THE EDGES OF NIGHT, Sean chose 40 photographs for display at PhotoPlace Gallery. He also selected 35 additional photographs for the exhibition's Online Annex. All work chosen for the gallery and online exhibitions will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.

Juror's Statement:

I could spend endless hours in the margin between day and night, where the concreteness of the day starts to liquify and flow away and other possibilities start to become visible and drift toward us like dreams. Or like photographs.

But of course there aren’t endless hours, and there’s something about the way the closing day urges us to act quickly and make pictures without too much thought.

Besides, things could get a bit crowded if all of those who submitted work to this show were there at the same time, running around and chasing wraiths of light.

The wonderful work in this show let’s us all go into that margin together and see so many different ways of capturing the same magic. Time and again I was moved by pictures that I’d never have thought to take…moved and instructed.

Final choices were really hard–they always are with this group–and the thing that helped me make them was knowing that it all had to mix into a single entity, a show, and not just be a group of pictures. Given the richness of the work, I was able to assemble a group of images that I think will come together in a sequence that brings the deep feelings of the evening to whoever sees it. So congratulations to everyone who made this work and brought it together.

Sean Kernan

Geoffrey Agrons Kensington, CA Time Balm II
Richard Baldwin Canberra, Australia The Indecision
Lon Bixby Burbank, CA Driving Rain
Steven Bundy Ranchos de Taos, NM Moonrise Black Mesa
Laurence Chellali Genoa, Italy Twilight
Richard Conrad Goshen, VT Reflections at Joey's Pond - I
Suzanne Engelberg Tiburon, CA Stranger in the Tunnel
Ellen Feldman Cambridge, MA Heading Home
Samuel Feron Noisy le Sec, France Blue Bubbles
Dennis Fritsche Plano, TX Cima Joshua Trees
Terri Garland Soquel, CA Anti-Obama Rally, 2008, Northern Alabama
Ray Grasse Wheaton, IL Night Passage
Paul Greenberg Dallas, TX Conner Park - Dawn
Michel Hersen Portland, OR Dawn at the West Mitten
Pamela Joye Salem, MA Mist on Salem Harbor
Candi S. Kalinsky Bellevue, NE Beyond the Surface
Kristianne Koch Riddle San Clemente, CA Looming Surge (from At the Edge [Between Heaven and Hell])
Marcus Koppen Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hong Kong No. 07
Rick Lavine Austin, TX Drive-in
Susan Lirakis Center Sandwich, NH Whisper
Barry Lobdell Saranac Lake, NY White Pine Camp
Tony Maridakis San Francisco, CA Reverie #11
Trace Meek Clearwater, FL Mother Earth and Ocean #19
Jody Miller La Crescenta, CA Dusk in Chinook
Alexis Mire Jacksonville, FL Into the Black
Susan Moore South Bend, IN Lake Michigan, 4281
Suzi Moore McGregor Durango, CO Evening Car Wash
Adam Osgood Vinalhaven, ME Rising Tide
John Puffer Vincennes, IN Yellow 6: Allen County, Kansas
Amy Rindskopf Winchester, MA Moonrise
Zachary Seib Milwaukee, WI Untitled
Jayne Silberman New York, NY Moon at Sunrise
John Stritzinger Elkins Park, PA Ogontz Winter
Benita R. VanWinkle Winston-Salem, NC Winter Sunrise
Alan Vlach Trenton, ME Dawn, Ely
Kurt Westbrook Poynette, WI Blue Dagger
Mike Whiteley Longmont, CO Small House, Longmont Colorado
Margaret Young Enosburg Falls, VT Summer Stillness
Fred Zafran Leesburg, VA No One at the Counter
Fattah Zinouri Laval, Quebec Migration - border of Iran and Afghanistan - 2012

	Christine Atlee Parsippany, NJ All is Quiet
	Bob Avakian Edgartown, MA The Beach House
	Maria Consoli Bartrum Boulder City, NV Mystery
	Kay Beausoleil Quebec, Quebec Charles Bridge at the Break of Dawn
	Cate Brown North Kingstown, RI Into the Sea #2
	Joan Lobis Brown New York, NY Myanmar 2
	Stephanie N. Bryan Atlanta, GA Sunrise over the Irish Sea
	David Cabana Davie, FL Red Moon
	Neal Cohen New York, NY Centripetal Force
	Phyllis Crowley New Haven, CT Moonlight
	Jerry Freedner Valatie, NY Bedroom Shadows - 2
	Kate Frese Conestoga, PA Candlelit
	Al Garber San Francisco, CA Holland Park Morning
	Stewart Harvey Portland, OR Crescent City Bird 2007
	Lars Hyttinen Wappingers Falls, NY Misty Hudson River Morning
	John F. Johnson Roseville, CA Winchester at Winchester
	Linda Koopman Alkmaar, The Netherlands Mijzenpolder 3
	Øysten Kristiansen Larvik, Vesitold, Norway Body
	Carol Lyon Cedar Creek, TX Dragonfly Dawn
	Mark Lyon Marlboro, NY Foam & Wash, Poughkeepsie, 2012
	LeeAnne Mallonee Bangor, ME Edge of the Day
	Nicolette Leigh-Anne McClure Albertville, AL Barn
	Ernest McLeod Middlebury, VT Green Dusk in Spring
	Carolyn Monastra Brooklyn, NY Lovely, Dark and Deep, #28
	Michelle Norris Athens, GA Lifted
	Susana O'Docharty Houston, TX Marfa Bound
	David Pace Los Altos, CA Sur La Route 0545
	Heather Polley San Francisco, CA Drake's Estero #2
	Jim Schlessinger Amherst, MA Full Moon in a Pastel Sky, Hopetown, 2013
	Walt Stricklin Hoover, AL Lister Ferry
	Vicky Stromee Tucson, AZ Atlanta Storm
	Scott Taylor Stow, MA Sunset Bagan
	Brian Van de Wetering Los Angeles, CA Show me thy chink
	Cara Lee Wade Fort Wayne, IN Midwestern Foliage
	Youngsook Zhang Hawaiian Gardens, CA Light on the Trunk