As we lay under darkness

Same sun. Same moon.

Each image was made from the same source.

One eclipse touching another, in time with light, many years later.

I sourced eclipse images from the Library of Congress from August 7, 1869 and January 24, 1925. I paired these with images from my personal archive made from the August 21, 2017 eclipse using a polaroid land camera that used to belong to my grandmother.

The process I used is called lumen printing, a way to affix images onto photographic light sensitive paper using UV light rays from the sun. The prints exposed over the time that the eclipse was taking place.