PHOTOGRAPHS BY
JINGYI (VICTOR) LIDOVER / HARRISBURG / HERSHEY / MIDDLETOWN
2024–26

When daylight left, we made another

SECOND
SUN

DUSK / STAGE / STREET / RETURN07

ENTER ISSUE 07 ↓

20 PHOTOGRAPHS · ISSUE 07

The first light faded.
The second was ours.

Blue hour begins on water, under bridges, and above a parking lot. Then the switch happens: a stadium becomes pink weather, stage beams cross a field of raised phones, fog rewrites an ordinary street, and parade light travels between houses. The crowd eventually falls away, leaving the moon, a cold glow above the block, and a dashboard carrying the night forward.

DOVER / HARRISBURG / HERSHEY / MIDDLETOWN · DUSK / STAGE / STREET / RETURN

A frozen blue lake and empty dock recede toward a dark tree line as the winter sun leaves the far-left edge. — 01THE SUN WITHDRAWS

Gold-gray cloud and a thin warm horizon reflect across the broad Susquehanna River near Harrisburg. — 02THE SUN WITHDRAWS

Stone bridge arches and their reflections form dark circles around small openings of sunset near Lemoyne. — 03THE SUN WITHDRAWS

An orange-pink sky silhouettes repeating parking-lot lamps, cars, and a low suburban horizon. — 04THE SUN WITHDRAWS

A dense crowd faces the full Hersheypark Stadium stage beneath a pale evening sky. — 05THE LIGHTS COME ON

A singer appears small against an immense hot-pink stage screen while white smoke rises at left. — 06THE LIGHTS COME ON

Magenta and white stage beams cross above raised phones and a concert crowd at Hersheypark Stadium. — 07THE LIGHTS COME ON

A bright guitar fills the stadium screens while violet haze hangs above a dark field of audience silhouettes. — 08THE LIGHTS COME ON

A singer reaches toward fans at the barricade under red stage light while crew and equipment crowd the scene. — 09THE LIGHTS COME ON

A face emerges from a red fog-filled crowd beneath a single diagonal spotlight. — 10THE LIGHTS COME ON

A small peaked storefront glows red beneath trees around the Dark Nights Emporium sign. — 11NIGHT INVENTS A STREET

A broken-stone arch marked Midway of Misery opens onto purple fog and a crowd beneath dark trees. — 12NIGHT INVENTS A STREET

A moving performer lifts a prop above a blue-lit crowd while haze and foreground figures blur the edges. — 13NIGHT INVENTS A STREET

A food stand and the distant Midway of Misery split a crowded night street into warm white and violet-red light. — 14NIGHT INVENTS A STREET

Parade dancers in red swing glowing batons along a residential street lined with seated spectators. — 15NIGHT INVENTS A STREET

Four performers stand in tall Barbie boxes on a blue and violet parade float as families watch from the curb. — 16NIGHT INVENTS A STREET

A bright full moon sits inside a blue-gray opening surrounded by rust-colored cloud and black sky. — 17AFTER THE CROWD

A wet residential parking lot, cars, bare trees, and snowbanks sit beneath a low gray sky with an unexplained blue glow. — 18AFTER THE CROWD

19AFTER THE CROWD

A lone pedestrian crosses between rows of cars before a red-lit mural and Netflix House sign at night. — 20AFTER THE CROWD