Night

When the sun sets, the world does not go quiet, it changes shift. More than half of all animal species are nocturnal, moving through a landscape reshaped by darkness: eyes tuned to catch the faintest light, ears mapping space through sound, whiskers and skin reading the air itself. Owls hunt in near-total silence, bats navigate by echo alone, moths follow moonlight and starlight instead of the sun. Predators and prey renegotiate their daylight rules under cover of night, when scent lingers longer and shadows offer a different kind of safety. This is a world built on senses other than sight, tuned over millions of years to a planet that spends half its time in the dark. Yet this hidden half of life is increasingly eroded by artificial light, which blurs the line between day and night. This gallery gives a tiny insight into the fascinating world of nocturnal life. Each image is an attempt to hold still what is, by nature, built to move unseen.