Captured on the banks of the Hudson River on a night when the temperature dropped to –7°F, Nocturne.NYC was not made in a single frame but through endurance and construction. Working with a telephoto lens, I recorded fifty-six separate exposures, each one taken with numbed hands against the winter air.

These fragments were later stitched together at my workstation, carefully aligned into a single panoramic vision. The result is not simply a document of New York City, but a meditation on process: a city disassembled and rebuilt, a nightscape forged through patience, precision, and persistence.

Nocturne.NYC stands as both an image and an artifact of endurance — a work shaped as much by the cold and the hours as by light and shadow.