NAVID BARATY

The Time Between

An ongoing series of 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 the contours of mountains, and city lights embed within stone.

These images exist in the space between 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. Brought into a single moment, these timelines blur, and structures that feel permanent begin to dissolve within a larger context.

Moving between reality and imagination, the series reorients perspective. It reflects on how we shape the world and how it shapes us in return, holding both admiration and humility, and shifting the scale at which we see ourselves.

All images © 2026 Navid Baraty