The Night Is Young

The night offers a different energy than the day. Most of us tend to dedicate our daytime hours to the labor it takes to sustain our lives and all of the miscellaneous chores that it takes to maintain order in our lives. Often, we look to the night hours for a sense of relief from this labor. It is for this reason that the night presents boundless opportunity for excitement, stimulation, partying, and debauchery. We gasp when we hear that a heinous crime was committed in "broad daylight". The night offers cover. The night is a cloak. The night is a mask. A person could assume a totally different personality by night. The night holds the potential for lawlessness, a recklessness, unfiltered human expression. Some might say that all of this is consistent with a youthful energy, an energy that throws caution to the wind, because consequences tend to arrive in the morning.

This exhibition, curated by Rohan DaCosta, features twenty two photographers from around the Bay Area, and their relationship with creatures of the night.