Artists have long been attracted to the Hamptons, due to its wonderfully rich
light. For the past six years, I have ventured out into the night to photograph
the area after dark, when the moon and the stars cast an entirely different glow
on the shores, the dunes, the fields. There's something about nighttime by the
sand that inspires me. When I was young, I was struck by an author's passage
about the Sahara; he wrote about a moon so bright you could literally read a
book. My favorite childhood memories are of bonfires on the beach in Sag Harbor,
and three summers ago I met my wife at an oceanfront bonfire under a full moon in
Amagansett; we ended up buying a little cottage a few blocks away from that very
spot. My images span from the cornfields of Sagaponack to the rocky outcroppings
of Montauk, from pine-lined Napeauge Bay to the oyster-studded Accabonac flats.
In this series, I am attempting to share with viewers the mood of the night,
when everything is silent and the lunar landscape is captivating.