I’m Alex Zhang, a photographer based in Chicago.

I’m a student at the University of Chicago, and I photograph landscapes, night skies and cities, usually in the hours around sunrise and sunset, or long after dark.

A lot of my work comes down to timing: a low tide on black sand, a full moon lined up with a lighthouse, an aurora forecast that turns out to be right. When I travel, it’s usually somewhere wild and dark. So far that has meant Iceland’s Ring Road, the Oregon coast and the Cascades, and the mountains and deserts of western China.

Closer to home, Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline give me plenty to wait for.