city
Cities That Refuse to Sleep
At night a city stops being infrastructure and starts being theatre.
Daylight is honest about cities — the traffic, the scaffolding, the bins. Night is kinder and more selective. It keeps the lit windows and loses the concrete, until a skyline becomes a constellation with rent.
The frames in this set were picked for their blacks. Cheap night photography is grey; the good kind lets darkness be genuinely dark, so the neon has something to cut into.
On an OLED screen these are almost unfairly effective: the true blacks switch their pixels off entirely, and the city floats on nothing. Battery life, as it happens, also approves.
