Untitled 2 by Mark Diehl

Contender Mark Diehl submitted work from his Dream Series. Well-executed and, more importantly, well-edited night photography summing up the work, I must give him credit for his take on the process. He says, "I attempted, constantly, to grasp why I was so enthralled with sacrificing rest for photographing silently at the hours when so few are awake." Shooting in his hometown, he revisits his past haunts, the places he knew only as a child, taking the project beyond eerie light and long exposures into a personal jaunt with nostalgia.

To photograph at night, to suffice for sleep, is to equate this process to dreaming. Fittingly and surprisingly, I found myself with physical records of places I dreamt of wandering in night as a youngster. These photographs are a document of discovery for myself, both as the artist and what it meant as a child to transverse into the dreaming landscape.

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