New York City Series

In 2007 I spent three weeks in New York City on a photographic journey of exploration, photographing the iconic architectural structures that adorn NYC. My images include the Guggenheim Museum, Wall Street Stock Exchange and the Chrysler and Flatiron buildings, but there is something else in the day-to-day goings on in the city, a wedding party under the Brooklyn Bridge, Jewish families enjoying the sunny afternoon at Coney Island, the vagrant on the steps of City Hall but a vacant Grand Central Terminal.

I have always been partial to urban landscapes due in part to an old desire to be an Architect and my style of photography lends itself to being patient, watching the light, looking at a subject from all angles or even just catching a glimpse through the forest of skyscrapers. Then someone walks into the scene and the “instant capture” that defines photography comes into play.

This series was photographed with a 35mm SLR camera on either black and white panchromatic film or on Infra-red film and the colour photographs were photographed with my Agfa Isoly medium format camera with colour negative film.