Field archive · Vol. I

Ten plates of first and last light, kept from a year of waiting on weather.

Scroll — the contact sheet keeps your place

Sand dunes at last light, Erg Chebbi

Erg Chebbi, Morocco · last light

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Cloud deck seen from cruising altitude

Over the Atlantic · 11,600 m

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Burning pre-monsoon sky at dusk

Pre-monsoon sky, Jaipur · dusk

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Full moon rising through pink clouds

Moonrise, Sonora · civil twilight

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Sunbeams breaking through storm clouds

Clearing storm, North Sea · noon

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Turquoise river bending through grassland

Mergel River, Hulunbuir · midday

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Sea of clouds under a blue sky

Cloud sea, Haleakalā · first light

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Fog pooling between golden hills at sunrise

Marin Headlands · fog at sunrise

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Coastal cliffs in golden-hour light

Cabo da Roca, Portugal · golden hour

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Milky Way over dark mountain ridges

Passo delle Selle, Dolomites · 01:40

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About the archive

Halflight is a working archive of light at the edges of the day — one photographer, ten plates a volume, nothing corrected in post.

Photographer at a tripod on a rock ledge at blue hour

Bear Mountain, Hudson Valley · blue hour

Each plate is printed at 60 × 90 cm on cotton rag, in an edition of twelve. When an edition sells out, its negative is retired.

Vol. II opens at the winter solstice. Until then, the contact sheet keeps your place.