Last Night

In 2012, a car accident interrupted the working life of professional photographer Robert Earnest and led to an extended period of late night wanderings for rehabilitation. These wanderings—mostly in the early dawn, after nighttime revelers, but before early morning workers—led to a series of evocative photographs of urban and urban-edge spaces. Suffused with theatricality, these images reflect an in-between time, neither day nor night, in which buildings, objects, and light take on anthropomorphic qualities in the absence of human activity.