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Election night at The New York Times has been documented in photos for decades. This year, Sara Krulwich and Simbarashe Cha, two Times staff photographers, were in the newsroom in Manhattan, making images of the night as it transitioned into morning.

Ms. Krulwich has taken photos for The Times for 45 years. She used to cover politics, but in 1995 she became a photographer for the Culture desk, focusing primarily on theater. Early on in her career, she covered Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1984.

“She was short and so was I, so I went everywhere with a little stepladder on my shoulder in order to get a better vantage point for my photos,” Ms. Krulwich, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall, said.

Mr. Cha, who has a fashion and cinematography background, leads Style Outside, a visual column that documents street fashion — so the fluorescent lighting and cluttered desks of the newsroom are not his normal backdrop.

“There’s a part of me that finds documenting politics to be very unsexy,” he said. “But shooting the newsroom in black and white made me think about the space in a different way.”

Below, see a selection of photographs that Mr. Cha and Ms. Krulwich captured in the newsroom on election night, with annotations.