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.
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
