A visual journal of public life — ritual, persona and memory in New York and elsewhere.
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On Forty-Seventh: Photographs from New York’s Diamond District
A photographic study of New York’s Diamond District and the uneasy overlap of skilled work, salesmanship, status and street life on West 47th Street.
J’Ouvert: Caribbean Identity and Culture in Brooklyn
Caribbean traditions take shape in Brooklyn’s streets at the annual J’Ouvert festival in Crown Heights.
Pride in Washington Square Park
The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.
Between Two Koreas: The DMZ
Photographs made along the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2011. An examination of division, controlled access and the experience of looking across one of the world's most closely guarded borders.
Phnom Penh: Within the Wats
Returning to Phnom Penh’s monasteries years after living in the city, I photographed the daily rhythms and relationships that came into focus through repeated visits.
Walking Wounded
New York City and Tokyo
Frailty, resilience, and the complex emotions triggered by witnessing trauma in public spaces.
Fleet Week: A Maritime Tradition
How military service members navigate between institutional authority and personal freedom during their temporary immersion in New York City's civilian life.
The Notebook
The Notebook observes people writing in public and the private interior held by the page, where memory, unfinished thought and absence meet.
Melbourne, Again
An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.
Pairs: Repetition and Différance
Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo
A photographic sequence exploring how repetition, relation and différance produce meaning between images.
Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs Trial
An exploration of the modern media circus surrounding celebrity trials, where live streamers and influencers jostled alongside legacy news.
The Father
Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo
A photographic study of how fatherhood becomes visible in public through carrying, protection, resemblance, discipline and control.
A Lungful of Air
New York City and Sydney
How substances shape the atmosphere of the city and the psyche of its inhabitants
Free Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione’s federal arraignment, capturing supporters, critics, costumes, protests, and media spectacle outside court as the high-profile case evolves toward trial.
Planted Matter
A photographic study of plants moving through New York City, tracing how care, commerce, transport and abandonment shape nonhuman life in urban space.
Psychic City
The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.
Oral Intervention
Melbourne, New York City, and Phnom Penh
Fleeting, intimate gestures of touching mouths in public spaces.
Act Your Age
Melbourne, New York City, and Tokyo
When age stops looking the way we expect, the photograph catches us deciding what the difference means.
Oral Fixation
A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.
Writing
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Chris Killip and the Limits of Proximity
Chris Killip spent years returning to communities reshaped by industrial decline, sometimes living among the people he photographed. His photographs show what proximity can make visible, and why access never becomes possession.
Lisette Model and the Cruelty of the Frame
Lisette Model's close, abrasive photographs made bodies feel impossible to evade. Her long-shelved jazz project reveals that the familiar “cruel camera” was only one part of the work—and that an artist's reputation can itself become a crop.
The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Produces Reality
A photograph can be factually authentic and still organize the world through captions, crops, assignments and repetition. Objectivity becomes credible only when journalism accounts for the decisions that turn an encounter into evidence and evidence into social identity.