Richard P Stevens

ARTIST STATEMENT:

This image is from the After Hours series, featuring people and places photographed with a cell phone as I am out and about in the early evening hours.

CURATORIAL NOTE:

This photograph, permeated with that ever present blue light of screens, washes over a lonely, empty bar in the foreground of the composition, strongly contrasted by a warm glow haloing a group of people engaged in conversation near the background. Stevens’ snapshot reflects on the insidious shift from blue hour being an ephemeral natural phenomenon to a pervasive technological constancy.

Image opposite : Blue Reflections