Public Eye
The photographs take you on a walk through the streets of New York City examining its inhabitants–the New Yorkers. The street teems with the likes of distracted professionals, preening fashionistas, fur-clad aristocrats, foreign tourists and aspiring artists. Living private lives while navigating through the crowd, their interactions mainly suffice as glimpses in passing, or overheard snippets of conversations, woven between foot steps in an aloof awareness of each other. A sidewalk stage reveals the daily routine on display.
This book project comprises a collection of street portraits collected from the various neighborhoods of New York City. I stopped to share time and space with people I was curious to know more about. The subjects also wanted to share themselves. For that moment we were no longer strangers to each other. The process was sociological, a peek under surface at a shared place and time: a captured reflection.