Thesis Abstract?

I would like to photograph images at night of residential areas and hopefully incorporate breaking out of the residential realm. These images are meant to convey a moment of realization or clarity when exploring at night. That process is not something I aim to expose to the viewer. Instead a dynamic resultant image is all that I want seen. This moment is the same one you can experience when music suddenly makes sense or in certain frames of Alfred Hitchcock movies, or any other moment of wonder.

Other References

Alfred Hitcock

Modest Mouse. The Moon and Antarctica.

John Frusciante. To Record Only Water For Ten Days.

Hemingway, Ernest. ”A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.”

Brassai. Paris At Night.

Photo References

Van Gogh "Die Kirche von Auvers" 1890

Gregory Crewdson “Untitled” from Twilight series 2001

Gregory Crewdson “Untitled (Nude Woman in Trailer)" (2004)

Todd Hido “#2690” 2000

Todd Hido “#2523” 1999

Thesis Ideas?

I want to expand on my past work of night time/night scape photos. I could try to put some emphasis on my actual process of walking around to produce, branching away from only residential areas, multiple image composites, trials with time of night(immediately after sunset/before sunrise/middle of the night), maybe different times of the day(yikes!) based on the original residential concept, and maybe a meeting of digital and 35mm traditional? So much for twenty ideas. It's really just shoot/experiment/repeat and see what comes out on the other side.