Midnights

Shot over several years in the hours of 12 to 2 a.m., “Midnights” explores the moments that reveal themselves when many of us are asleep. What can the camera see that the human eye cannot? What can you witness when you’re willing to stay up late?

The collection is on view at the Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts in September 2025.

Fireflies in the meadows at MassAudubon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, June 27, 2023.

A moped rider on High Street in Holyoke, Aug. 3, 2023. For this photograph and many others in the show, I used a 45mm perspective control lens that can change the focal plane to create ethereal “tilt-shift” images.

An angler weighs a catfish on the Route 116 bridge over the Connecticut River between South Hadley and Holyoke, Aug. 3, 2023.

The Connecticut River surged over its banks in a rare summer flood in 2023, cresting around midnight on July 12 and shutting down Route 5 between Easthampton and Northampton.

An Easthampton police officer on Route 5, July 12, 2023.

The Milky Way rises above an amateur astronomer at the Arunah Hill Natural Science Center in Cummington, Massachusetts during the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 11, 2023.

Edward Faits, volunteer director of the Arunah Hill Natural Science Center, adjusts a 120-year-old Gaertner refracting telescope during an event on Aug. 11, 2023.

New Year’s Eve at the Brass Cat in Easthampton, Jan. 1, 2014.

The Whately Diner after a snowstorm on March 15, 2023.

Amtrak’s Valley Flyer crosses a canal in downtown Holyoke shortly after leaving the city’s train platform around midnight, under a nearly full moon on Aug. 3, 2023.

A man crosses Chestnut Street outside the Ivory Billiard Lounge in Holyoke, March 4, 2023.

The Saturday night crowd at Antonio’s Pizza in downtown Amherst on May 13, 2023.

Food truck patrons at Kendrick Park in downtown Amherst, May 13, 2023.

Workers move a historic home on Belchertown Road in Amherst, Oct. 29, 2024.

Mount Holyoke and Taylor’s Notch under moonlight, Aug. 31, 2023.

A member of the Palmer chapter of the Latin American Motorcycle Association poses for a portrait on Worthington Street in Springfield, Aug. 13, 2023.

Pedestrians pass the mural wall at the former site of Bloom’s Camera Center in downtown Springfield, Aug. 13, 2023.

Patrons at Brennan’s Place on High Street in Holyoke on St. Patrick’s weekend, March 2023.

A worker on Interstate 91 in Northampton, Aug. 2, 2023.

A pedestrian on Race Street in Holyoke during a snowstorm on Feb. 28, 2023.

A spotted salamander near Henry Street in Amherst, March 27, 2023, during the annual spring migration from their winter hideaways to vernal pools.

A spotted orbweaver on the Smith College campus, July 11, 2023.

A cow in the pasture at Cook Farm in Hadley, Aug. 31, 2023.