Artist Vytenis Jankunas is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the series ‘Nocturnal Creatures’. To see Vytenis’ body of work, click on any photograph.

“Nocturnal Creatures” is a photography project about the humans of big Metropolis by night. What I was trying to do is to tell my own story through these people. All pictures are not staged, but rather a street photography, but I edited them my own way, erasing backgrounds and adding narrative elements to it. People in my images became city dwellers without the actual city. They look like actors on a theater stage playing their own stories about New York by night. Note: all images are treated as diptychs of two matching pairs intentionally.

I primarily use the photography medium as a creative tool lately. It gives me an advantage of capturing life around me in the most effective way possible. My work is a reflection of me, or my inner state in particular time and location through other people and objects I meet in my journey in and around NYC. My background in fine arts and painting lets me treat photography the way I would approach empty canvas, or sheet of paper. I do not stage, or influence my shots, but rather search and wait for the situation to occur and surprise me.

All images and text © Vytenis Jankunas