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FEATURE
THE DEAD OF NIGHT
The majority of the time I spend on campus is after the sun goes down. Many nights I find myself walking around campus at 1 or 2 a.m., and I've started to notice the transformation the area goes through every day. I discovered that there are two very different sides to campus. There's the side that everyone knows — the crowded sidewalks, lines of idling buses and the chatter of a thousand conversations happening at once. And then there's a whole other world with a completely different feeling — the world of campus at night. All the physical components are the same, but the atmosphere couldn't be more different. Without the thousands of people who inhabit campus daily, there's a sense of abandonment.
contrast is more apparent when privated by the day compared with the quiet stillness of the night. The large buildings are still there, ready to accommodate thralls of students; the more makes campus seem large and hollow. There's something hauntingly beautiful about this emptiness that I've tried to convey in these images.
// WORDS AND PHOTOS BY RYAN WAGGONER
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