This photographic series takes us on a nighttime walk into one of San Francisco’s most iconic neighborhoods, the Mission District. Traditionally a center of Latino life and culture, it has also become a mecca for artists, hipsters and gentrifiers, with all the transformations such a process implies. But as night falls, a sense of timelessness and wonder emerges against the backdrop of these sometimes gritty streets. Mystery and magic envelop the Victorian houses and street art, the shops and restaurants and bars, and above all the people who move through these spaces. We see the interaction between place and people as they walk down the street, shop, engage in various activities and festivities, stop for food or drink. Sometimes we see them as elements of a larger group, sometimes as an individual microcosm, but always as part of the collective experience of this place in time. Visual features that help to describe these moments are: the interplay between darkness, light and color, elements of movement and energy, and the ciphers and patterns formed by the protagonists of these nocturnal streetscapes, as night falls on the Mission.