For the span of one summer, I photographed my mother’s Canadian, country garden while she slept inside. I had never photographed at night before, so I felt I was stumbling through the unknown, blindly surrendering to fortune or accident. I experimented with lightning storms, the phases of moonlight, porchlight, with varied exposure times, never using flash, though sometimes holding a pocket flashlight to coax out the darkness. I used different cameras, analog, digital and pinhole during the long exposures, my finger on the shutter, tracking time. Meanwhile, my mother, a passionate lifelong gardener, slept, while her body battled terminal cancer. This series of photographs, sparsely punctuated with words, tells a subtle yet universal story contemplating love, loss and our place in the universe.

Published by Datz Press, Korea, 2015. Edition of 300. Monograph, with afterword by Dr. Anthony Bannon.
9 1/2 x 12", 106 pages, hardcover, color, offset printing, sewn binding. See more images here.

Night Garden - Collector's Book - comes with signed, limited edition print: (More) Many Moons, 8.5x11" archival pigment print (edition of 25). SOLD OUT

Collections:

The Getty Research Institute - Private Collections; Stanford University Library; The New York Public Library; Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book Library; Glen Hospital, Montreal; Detroit Center for Creative Photography, Birmingham; Aaron Siskind Library, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University