4D10004: Stephen Wilkes Regata Storica, Venice, Day to Night

Photographer Stephen Wilkes is one of America's most iconic photographers, widely recognized for his fine art, editorial and commercial work. Day to Night, Wilkes's most defining project, began in 2009. These epic cityscapes and landscapes portrayed from a fixed camera angle for up to 30 hours capture fleeting moments of humanity as light passes in front of his lens over the course of a full day. A select group of these images are then seamlessly blended into one photograph, capturing the changing of time within a single frame.

This photograph was created during the Historical Regatta - an event that has taken place in Venice every year since the 1498. The boats and costumes seen in this photograph are exactly the same as they were back then.