Casey LeClair: Nightlife In Renderville

“Nightlife in Renderville” is a single chapter of the forthcoming book, Renderville, A Guide, about a town that doesn’t actually exist. The exhibition is a collection of urban street photography, captured between dusk and dawn, and an exercise in worldbuilding after a traumatic brain injury. The project documents the rendering process of physical reconstruction and the challenges of relearning old skills, particularly the use of a digital camera. 

While street photography is inherently tied to improvisation, as in capturing luck through a lens, night photography is a unique challenge since available light changes constantly while navigating city streets. The photographs range from recognizable, voyeuristic, fantastical, and everything in between.

Curator: Matt Distel, Executive Director of The Carnegie