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Random Harvest
Americans throw away about 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year. Placed end to end, they would reach to the moon and back nearly 20 times. Each with a 5 cents redeemable deposit in...
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Single Beds
The floor before my bed is bright: Moonlight – like hoarfrost – in my room. I lift my head and watch the moon. I drop my head and think of home. Li Bai (Li Po) (Tr. Vikram Seth, 1992, from “3 Chinese...
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Table for One
I have no idea why I love this photograph. There is a calm and solitude to it that gives it its strength I think. A familiar loneliness of the subject that somehow makes it powerful. I would guess that...
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One Night on 57th Street
57th Street runs across the middle of Manhattan from the East River, through the northern end of Midtown, crossing the opulence of 5th Avenue as it continues in an absolute straight line to the north...
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The Beauty in the Beast
Just to prove that not everything is rotting in New York, here is a glimpse of Manhattan beyond the great divide. The other side of the line where money, opulence and material desire is king. Where...
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After the Party is Over
So the champagne glasses have been sipped and re-filled, the backslapping and congratulations have been exhausted. The corporate chalice has been raised to glory and extravagance. The last night at...
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Just Looking
As the New York summer ends and the last few warm days are made the most of by the majority of the population. Two reluctant swimmers look on from the Coney Island pier. I like the sense of exclusion...
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Lost
I promised myself that I would not bang any big drums here with this blog. I have broken it. My aim was to just post what I see, and let anyone who is interested enough to look at my images to...
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The Great Divide
New York City has always been a place of contrast and struggle. The gap between the privileged rich and the dirt poor has never been wider. Emphasized this week by the rolling, opulent bandwagon that...
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Concrete Flowers
While the eyes of America are diverted by the need for media flavored chewing gum, faux celebrity and egocentric politicians who dance and posture like drunken lemmings on the edge of a fiscal cliff,...
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Haunted
The more I look at this photograph the more I see. The more I see the more disturbing I find it. I am so used to flitting around the streets of New York thinking I am invisible, sealed in a camera...
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Down There
The New York Subway is the largest and the oldest rapid transport system in the world. A vast network of well over 650 miles of track that runs 24/7. A twisting, turning, underground maze of...
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Rotten to the Core
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office has announced that housing support payments to the New York City families left homeless by Superstorm Sandy are to be stopped. It seems compassion and decency has its...
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The Prince of Manhattan
New York City has its fair share of the wild, the wacky and the wickedly wonderful (see ‘Peacocks’). As a typically reserved Englishman, I am constantly surprised by the bizarre characters who prowl...
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Downwardly Mobile
As someone who has trouble putting together an overnight bag, I am always amazed by the packing and transportation skills of the homeless in New York. The burden of dragging around your possessions on...
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Happy Memorial Day
‘In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends’ Martin Luther King Jr Filed under: Homeless, People, Places, Street Life Tagged: Anton Brookes, Candid...
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Up Close and Far Away
I can’t decide if there is more impact close up or with a wider shot taking in the environment. Isolated images that show the details of the face tend to make a more dramatic portrait style photograph...
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Small Change
For me, there is something devastatingly moving about this photograph. Fragile, isolated and alone, a very elderly homeless woman sits in the burning heat of a Lexington Avenue summer afternoon. If I...
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Glorious
On the corner of Spring and Bowery stands the magnificent German Bank Building. Decades of urban scrawl cover its granite facade and it has been the home of commercial photographer Jay Maisel and his...
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Empire
Four very different images of the same piece of brick and steel. The Empire State Building has dominated the skyline of New York City since 1931. Named as one of the wonders of the modern world, it...
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