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Hidden City
HIDDEN CITY is a collection of photographic records, made with my phone/camera, of chance moments and disparate details I encounter in my hometown NYC. I assemble these images into one-off handmade books. As a professional photojournalist and documentarian, I’ve spent decades juggling heavy cameras and complicated histories. Now, I use this miniature tool to record beautiful, baffling, mundane, and inexplicable pieces of this city. My haphazard images are the raw material for a narrative of my neighborhood, the city I grew up in, and the streets I spend my days in. I make random photographs of my hidden city, letting their stories reveal themselves.
The Streets of Chelsea
When Covid hit NYC in 2020, my neighborhood shut down overnight. Once teeming with tourists and construction, everything halted. My streets quickly turned empty and gray. THE STREETS OF CHELSEA was a 2 1/2-year street art intervention documenting my neighborhood in tumultuous times. As things changed, I changed with it, capturing the tenuous re-openings, the outdoors-only activities, the cries of police brutality, the scores of angry protesters, and the widespread destruction and fear. I photographed daily, and I postered these images onto halted construction sites and boarded up buildings. I recorded my neighbors’ views on the pandemic and the civic unrest. I maintained continuous documentation on social media.
Living with Disability
