New York

New York is one of the few cities in the world that actually looks like itself. The Brooklyn Bridge in front of the Manhattan skyline, Times Square at night, the view from above: these images exist in a shared visual memory long before you arrive. The challenge is not to find the city, it is to find a way in that is not already used up. This project moves between the obvious and the overlooked. The necessary landmarks, shot for what they actually are rather than what they are supposed to represent, and the spaces where the city exhales: the empty boardwalk at Coney Island in the off-season, the quiet arc of DUMBO on a grey morning, Bethesda Terrace with strangers passing through the light. New York at full volume and New York when nobody is looking. Both are worth the trip.