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.
American Backyard: Photographs in Central Park
More than a decade-long photographic study of Central Park as New York’s shared backyard—a public landscape shaped by leisure, labor, intimacy, ritual and performance.
Phnom Penh: The Waterline
Along the Tonle Sap below Phnom Penh’s riverfront promenade, swimmers, fishers and children occupy the rough threshold between city and water.
Melbourne, Again
An ongoing street study of Melbourne, photographed during yearly returns to home after moving to New York City.
The Notebook
The Notebook observes people writing in public and the private interior held by the page, where memory, unfinished thought and absence meet.
The Subject at Hand
Melbourne, New York City and Phnom Penh
A photographic study of hands that emerge from the background of street scenes and become the subject through repetition, attention and sequencing.
Oral Fixation
A photographic study of people of all ages touching their mouths, tracing a small, often unconscious gesture repeated across public life.
Tokyo After Dark
Tokyo night photography exploring intimacy, labor, performance and anonymity across the city’s after-dark districts.
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.
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.
Pride in Washington Square Park
The intersection of celebration and activism, exploring how expressions of identity transform within increasingly liberal and commercialized spaces.
Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs Trial
An exploration of the modern media circus surrounding celebrity trials, where live streamers and influencers jostled alongside legacy news.
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.