Sole Harlem. The one and only, unique and pure – just Harlem, and nothing else. The title introduces Harlem as a magical place of longing that only works and lives within, and cannot carry its characteristics to the outside world. The words do not only convey the uniqueness of this...
Diogo Montes: All Paths Lead to NYC
"All Paths Lead to NYC" is a visual tribute to the city where all cultures converge. An intriguing art experiment where the lines between reality and imagination get (literally) blurred. A new way of exploring the saturated and overly depicted city of New York, inciting curiosity and giving the viewer...
Photochroms of New York City from 1900s
Photochrom is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856–1924), an employee of the Swiss...
Interview with street photographer Julian Master
Julian Master is a photographer from Eugene, Oregon currently living in New York City. His work deals with the relationship between cities and commercialization, globalization, and the age-old theme of weirdness. Not formally educated in photography, Julian derives inspiration from placing himself in unfamiliar crowds, traveling abroad, and dealing with...
Colorized photos of Ellis Island immigrants (1910s)
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much...
Caique Cunha: Williamsburg
“The streets are full of sweat in the mortar of your pavement”, according to the nineteenth century Brazilian writer, João do Rio, in his book, The Enchanting Soul of the Streets. “Williamsburg” is the final work after spending some months (2015) in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn. New York City...
Adam Friedberg: Single Story
The last fifteen years or so have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and Bowery neighborhoods. Previously, buildings greater than six stories were less common between the Financial District...
Christopher Thomas: New York Sleeps
Imagine a New York devoid of people, its empty streets, bridges and waterways as silent and magnificent as an Ansel Adams landscape. This is the New York that Christopher Thomas reveals in duotone photographs that are at once haunting and nostalgic. Employing a large-format Polaroid camera, Thomas shot many of...
Julian Master: In the Red
Julian Master’s In The Red refreshes the overcooked label of “New York Street Photography” by asking us to break down all barriers of cynical pretension and simply ask what it generally means to exist in a city. It means, today, an unprecedented degree of chaos and diversity, in both appearance...
Johannes Heuckeroth: Cityscapes
Johannes Heuckeroth is German photographer and designer based Nuremburg. About his work he says: The central essence of my photographic work is the search for beauty. I am searching for this beauty all over the world in architecture, land- and cityscapes. I want to create and share my interpretation of the reality....