It Was Almost Night by the Beach draws on photographic conventions long associated with reality and affect, revisiting the codes through which photography has represented and made intimacy legible.

Dusk is a moment especially celebrated in photography: a moment when light reveals certain details while leaving others only faintly suggested. The series inhabits that threshold of light. In these images, a slight variation in appearance alters the naturalness of gestures, the consistency of the environment, and the way bodies occupy the scene.

Rather than asking where the line between the real and the artificial lies, the series examines how that distinction is produced, naturalized, and made legible. In this sense, the series constructs an environment in which our own habits of seeing begin to turn strange.