NAVID BARATY

The Time Between

An ongoing series of layered double exposures that places cities within the expanse of the natural world. Through layering and blending, built structures and landscapes coexist in a single frame. Towers settle into dunes, urban grids echo mountain contours, and city lights embed within stone.

These images occupy the space between vastly different scales of time. What we build in decades is set within terrain shaped over millions of years, and beneath skies that extend far beyond a human lifetime. When brought into a single moment, these timelines compress, and structures that feel permanent begin to dissolve within a larger context.

Blurring the line between reality and imagination, the series reframes perspective. It considers how we shape the world and how it shapes us in return, holding both admiration and humility while shifting the scale at which we see ourselves.

All images © 2026 Navid Baraty