firstlight (2026–)

Firstlights are bare-sensor photographs made with light filtered through clear and smoky quartz, and are my imagining of what the Big Bang might have looked like in its very first instant of existence. I have always found it strange that the Big Bang is not the subject of religious devotion, and wanted to create icons that its devotees might worship.

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Pigment prints on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P

Firstlight 9, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 9, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 2, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 2, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 1, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 1, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 8, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 8, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 10, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 10, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 7, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 7, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 12, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 12, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 13, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 13, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 6, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 6, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 11, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 11, 2026
Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum
3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 5 + 1 A/P
Firstlight 9, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 2, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 1, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 8, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 10, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 7, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 12, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 13, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 6, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.
Firstlight 11, 2026Pigment print on Baryta paper, flush-mounted to aluminum3 x 3 in. (7.62 x 7.62 cm)Edition of 5 + 1 A/P - nathaniel morrow.