These amazing night-time street photographs will inspire you to go outside with your camera after dark

Brian Lloyd Duckett, a photographer, has published a book that encourages photographers to explore night street photography. Duckett believes that night photography requires a different approach than daytime street photography. In his book, 52 Assignments: Night Street Photography, he provides weekly assignments that range from neon lights and silhouettes to still lifes and intentional camera movement.

Duckett's new book emphasizes that darkness should be seen as a compositional tool rather than a problem to overcome. By choosing what to reveal or hide, photographers can create a simpler and more visually compelling image. He advocates for learning to see the "evocative" rather than the obvious, withholding information to let the viewer construct a narrative from what is left out.

One of Duckett's favorite techniques is withholding information, allowing the viewer to imagine the story behind the photograph. This approach is evident in his assignment 05, Hold It Back, where photographers are encouraged to use layers, reflections, foreground obstructions, and light to conceal parts of a scene. Duckett also mentions Saul Leiter, a master of this approach, who captured heavily worn shoes from a ground-level perspective in his Shoes of the Shoeshine Man series. This technique allows the viewer to imagine who the workers are and what they are doing.