DomesticNocturne
Six photographs of ordinary interiors, made in available light, at the point where familiar rooms begin to feel unfamiliar.
Archival prints from $350 — editions of 15, 10 and 5
See the printsThe hang
Six photographs, printed and sold as closed editions. Every size and price is listed. Choose a work to see the full sheet.
On the wall
These are made to be lived with. Scale is the thing people get wrong most often — a 12 × 16 above a console reads as a note, a 30 × 40 changes the room.
What you receive
No surprises at the door. This is the whole of it.
The print
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, 315gsm, a cotton rag paper with a faint warm base that suits black and white.
Pigment inks rated beyond 100 years under glass, away from direct sun.
Size and border
Listed dimensions are the paper. Each print carries a 1.5-inch white border so it can be framed without cutting into the image.
12 × 16, 20 × 24 and 30 × 40 inches. Prints arrive unframed.
Edition and signature
Signed, numbered and dated on the verso in pencil, with a numbered certificate of authenticity.
Editions are closed. When a size sells out it is not reprinted at that size, in any finish, ever.
Shipping
Made to order and dispatched within 5 to 7 business days. Free and insured within the United States, $65 elsewhere.
Up to 20 × 24 ships flat between boards. 30 × 40 ships rolled in a rigid tube.
Returns
Fourteen days from delivery, for any reason, including that it wasn't right on the wall. Refunded when it arrives back.
Anything damaged in transit is replaced, not refunded, unless you would rather have the money.
Framing
Black or natural oak, a two to four inch mat, and museum glass if the wall gets sun. A framer will charge roughly $200 to $450 at these sizes.
Email for exact measurements before you book one.
These photographs are not about rooms so much as the pressure of attention inside them.
Familiar objects become unfamiliar when darkness, glare and movement isolate them. Nothing here is staged into spectacle. The interest is in what was already there, briefly made visible.
Nikolai Steklov is a photographer in San Francisco working on interiors, available light, and the point where familiar scenes begin to feel slightly unfamiliar.
Domestic Nocturne was made over a year of nights in one house. No flash and no added light — only what the lamps, screens and streetlight were already doing.
Every print is made under his supervision in San Francisco and inspected before it ships. Questions about a specific work, a larger commission, or an exhibition: hello@nikolaisteklov.com.
From the studio
Available light, after ten
Why the series never uses flash, and what a 1/8 second exposure does to a room.
Four nights, one fan
The first photograph in the sequence took four nights and eleven rolls to get once.
Framing the nocturnes
Mat width, frame colour, and why black wins on a dark photograph more often than people expect.
New work, twice a year
Editions are small, and the first note goes to this list. Nothing else is sent to it.