Night & Day

• Prize
• Photographer
  Andrew Prokos, United States
• Studio
  Andrew Prokos Gallery
• Socials
• Website
  https://andrewprokos.com

In Night & Day I capture the transition from day to night in various locations around the
world. The photos are composed of numerous exposures shot at the same location over the
course of a single day or over several days. I then merge the multiple day, dusk, and
night exposures into a seamless transition which collapses the temporal element and allows
the viewer to see the city in a new way. In preparing each scene I decide where the
transition should begin and end, and in which direction time should flow. I base these
decisions on visual instinct and what looks most natural to me and I often introduce an
element of randomness into the scene by allowing one time to bleed into another. At times
the borders between day and night collide head on, and other times they tiptoe into one
another. It is the details, however, that add a sense of incongruity to the photos and
challenge the viewer to find where one time frame ends and the other begins: traffic light
trails that fade into day on the span of the Brooklyn Bridge, a tourist standing on a
Segway in broad daylight, while just a few feet away the rest stand in darkness, the
glimmering lights of Midtown reflected in the Pond at mid-day. In Night & Day I am
concerned less with capturing the passage of time than capturing the incongruous and
ephemeral nature of time.

• Biography
  Andrew Prokos is an award-winning architectural and fine art photographer based in New York City. His framed art prints have been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, 21_21 Design Sight Museum Tokyo, Banco do Brasil, and in photography galleries and art collections in USA, UAE & Europe.
• Awards
  AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 37 2021 – "Metropolis Abstracted" – Jury Selection 2021 – "56 Leonard" – Jury Selection AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 31 2015 – "Night & Day" - Central Park" – Jury Selection EPSON INTERNATIONAL PANO AWARDS Silver Medal – Professional 2013 – “Tribute in Light” 2013 – “Fourth of July Panorama, New York City” Bronze Medal – Professional 2014 – “Night & Day" – Manhattan Cityscape 2014 – “Night & Day – Rio de Janeiro Cityscape” 2014 – “World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan" ND PHOTO AWARDS Silver Medal – Professional 2014 – “Night & Day” – Cityscapes LATIN AMERICAN FOTOGRAFIA 3 2014 – “Niemeyer’s Brasilia” – Jury Selection PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS (PX3) Gold Medal – People’s Choice – Professional 2015 – “Night & Day” – Fine Art – Landscapes 2015 – “Night & Day” – Fine Art – Digitally Enhanced 2014 – “Niemeyer’s Brasilia” – Architecture / Advertising Silver Medal – Professional 2014 – “Gehry’s Children” – Architecture / Advertising Bronze Medal – Professional 2014 – “Niemeyer’s Brasilia” – Fine Art Architecture INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (LUCIES) Silver Medal – Professional 2020 - "Inverted" - Architecture / Other 2013 – “Niemeyer’s Brasilia” – Silver – Night Photography Honorable Mention – Professional 2016 – “Night & Day” – Cityscapes, Night Photography 2016 – “Forum Romanum” – Architecture 2014 – “Night & Day” – Panoramic Photography, Cityscapes, and Night Photography 2014 – “Gehry’s Children” – Architecture / Fine Art 2014 – “The Architecture of Amusement” – Architecture