New York City Photographs
New York has never been a single photographic subject for me. Some pictures began with people. Others with buildings, movement or the particular way light behaves between tall city streets.
On 19 October 2013 I stopped near West 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue when I noticed sunlight being reflected between the buildings and shopfronts. For two minutes and twenty-six seconds I remained in one position while shoppers, workers and tourists passed through the frame. The buildings hardly changed; everything happening beneath them did.
That short sequence became as much about looking as New York itself: repeated architecture, changing gestures, chance alignments and people briefly sharing a piece of pavement before continuing elsewhere.
Other photographs here look at the city differently. Phone Walkers isolates two people absorbed by their phones within the larger street, while the Flatiron Building and Brooklyn Bridge photographs are concerned more with structure, scale, perspective and movement.
Together they are not intended as a portrait of New York. They are photographs I happened to find there.