Whitewashed buildings and windmills cascade down the cliffs of Oia, Santorini, glowing with warm lights above a deep blue sea beneath a clouded sunset sky.

Where Evening Gathers

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March 2024

About this piece

In this photograph by Mike Gedj, Oia’s layered terraces, rounded roofs, and windmills rise above the Aegean at dusk. Amber lights trace the hillside architecture, contrasting with the blue sea and lavender clouds edged by the remaining sunset.

The story

I watched the hillside become a constellation of windows and terraces while the sea held its deep blue. Above the windmills, a narrow band of sunset lingered beneath the clouds. My eye kept moving between the open water and the close weave of stairways, each offering a different kind of distance. I framed them together: the village gathering its evening light, and the horizon leaving room for the last color of the day.

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