Justin Yu

"Unless you live under a rock, you have heard of sightings of strange creatures either from the Internet or from people you know. We dismiss the absurdity of these accounts as if it’s something conjured up from horror movies. We look into these sightings to entertain ourselves without actually believing that it is real. When searching for weird sightings of creatures, it takes place in either a rural or quiet area most of the time. I feel like the fact that these rumors happen in the middle of nowhere supports itself in a certain way. There is no one else in the area who also experienced the sighting. This makes me question: What else happens in the backcountry? What happens in places where people are not there to see? The countryside makes up more land than cities do, making more room for the unknown to occur. That is where my collection, Twilight, comes in. Through these images, I wanted to explore the things that could happen in these areas. Twilight is when the Sun is no longer there to shed light on the obvious, yet lingering long enough to allow us to get a glimpse of what we can see."