Ryan McGinley: Night Shift presents photographs shot between 9pm and 5am across all five boroughs through spring into winter 2025. Employing slow shutter, long lens, and radio flash, McGinley creates luminous, hallucinatory scenes in which bodies and city become one — neon, halogen, and brake lights painting airy compositions that evoke pulsation and dance. Recoding the raw spontaneity of his early practice into a nocturnal New York, the series moves through locations of personal resonance: waterfront piers, smoke-spilling manholes, graveyards opening onto skylines, the Cyclone at Coney Island. "This is my poem to New York City," McGinley says — a place where rare quietness reveals itself as a playground for a body in motion.
