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...

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...

Franck Bohbot: Light On – Neons of New York

Brooklyn based artist photographer Frank Bohbot documents illuminated facades of small shops, restaurants and services. Born in the southernmost suburbs of Paris, France (1980), photographer Franck Bohbot moved to New York City in 2013. He is a documentarian with an eye for the theatrical who found his way to photography by way of...

Navid Baraty: NYC Intersection

Watching the pace and flow of New York City from above is amazing. The constant stream of yellow taxis lining the avenues, the waves of pedestrians hurriedly crossing with the change of traffic signals, little figures disappearing into and emerging from the subway stations, the chorus of honking horns and...