New York

New York City

  • black and white photograph of the New York skyline
    View of Manhattan from Greenpoint, 2015
  • black and white photograph of a Brookelyn street corner. it is a collage of graphics and materials, with a construction site covered in plywood, a sign saying Joe's PIZZA, a newspaper box, a one-way sign, a bicycle locked to a parking sign, traffic lights, people walking round the corner.
    Brooklyn
  • a black and white photograph of a box of slides
    In an antiques shop in Williamsburg
  • photograph of the back side of a building. a plain blue-grey plaster wall dominates the image. there is an open door in which a guy who looks like a worker in the place is sitting. he's wearing a t-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap backwards. he's wearing gloves. in front of the building is another guy wearing a cap and holding some stuff and some parked cars.
    Williamsburg, New York, July 2015
  • a photograph of graffiti on a wall
    Williamsburg, 2015
  • photograph of buildings in Williamsburg in New York. the buildings are brick and wood siding. in the foreground there is a tree and powerlines. the sun is strong and creating strong dappled and stippled shadows on the buildings.
    Williamsburg, 2015
  • photograph of a street and shops in Williamsburg, New York. the building is brick and the shop have awnings with graphically expressive shop names. one shop has a display clothes rack outside. another shop has neon signs in the window. there is graffiti on the building and a lot of bicycles parked outside.
    Williamsburg, 2015
  • black and white photograph taken in Manhattan. a sign over a shop reads, Splendid Dry Cleaners in attractive typefaces where the sun is creating shadows. there is a row of windows above the shop and a fire escape on the left side, also creating dramatic shadows. a woman wearing sunglasses and carrying a shopping bag is on the street in front of the dry cleaners.
    Manhattan, 2015
  • black and white photograph of Eliasson's collectivity project, which is a huge amount of white legos on many tables. people have built up the legos into many structures and tall teetering towers. two people are in the photograph, seen from the back, looking at the legos.
    The collectivity project, Olafur Eliasson, 2015. The High Line.
  • photograph of the MOMA courtyard from above. the courtyard is marble and there is a row of steel frame chairs that create shadows. a man is sitting at the end of the row reading a newspaper. there are trees in the middle and on the right another man is walking across the marble.
    MOMA, 2015
  • black and white photograph of Manhattan architecture from the street level looking up
    Manhattan, 2015
  • photograph of a street scene in Greenpoint, New York. a water tank sits up on the roof of a building, with graffiti on it. the evening sun is lighting the scene. a bicyclist is riding down the street.
    Greenpoint, 2015
  • photograph of a detail of the artwork Between Heaven and Earth at the Met, which is made of reclaimed tin cut into mosaic shapes that are then connected together with wire
    Between Heaven and Earth, El Anatsuit, 2006. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
  • black and white photograph of a Manhattan scene. a neon sign of white lights reads, RODGERS. below it is an advertising hoarding for Hamilton. there are many water tanks on various levels and several skyscrapers.
    Manhattan, 2015
  • black and white photograph of the Flatiron building in Manhattan and the street scene in front of it, with people sitting at cafe tables
    Manhattan, 2015
  • photograph of a community garden in New York's Lower East side. the main focus of the photo is a bright blue wooden gate lightly dappled by a low sun. there is a building visible on the left side; otherwise the scene is full of plants, flowers and trees. the feeling is more of countryside than being in a city.
    Community garden, Lower East Side, 2015
  • photograph of part of a community garden in New York's Lower East Side. there are two frescos or murals of people painted on a building wall. plant boxes line the wall and a bright blue picnic table with attached benches is in the middle. wooden benches mark the right side of the sitting space, which is tiled with stone flooring.
    Community garden, Lower East Side, 2015
  • photograph of a wall in a community garden in Manhattan's Lower East Side, New York City. the wall has a large mural painted on it, in soft tones of green and ochre, depicting different types of people, from soldiers to African women holding a child. three metal garden chairs are in a very graceful row along the wall. the tonal varieties are all subdued and in harmony, creating a relaxed atmosphere.
    Community garden, Lower East Side, 2015
  • photograph of decorations along a fence of a community garden in Manhattan's Lower East Side, New York City. the decorations are made mainly of metal and stick up and down off the top of the fence looking like a bunch of whirligigs. there are other creations too, made of waste such as detergent boxes and a robot made of waste materials.
    Community garden, Lower East Side, 2015
  • photograph of the entry wall to the 'Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space' in New York's Lower East Side in Manhattan. there is a coat rack visible below the museum sign and the wall dominates the photo, covered in bright graffiti.
    The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, Lower East Side, 2015

See more urban photos in my Cities album on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHskKwdsU2

New York