Art and artists from HYPE. I always found it difficult to figure out how to brand myself. It’s easy to call me a street photographer, but what city walking photographer isn’t also somewhat of a street photographer by default? I’m a walker. When all is said and done I hope.. no, I am, a documentarian, […]
I never thought I was interesting. I grew up a feral upper-middle-class white straight male on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I had friends. I went to summer camp and on trips. I had too many toys. People thought I was ‘friendly’, although that was probably because of my disposition and I had too
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“It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park, to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood.” – The New York Times, 1866 Our Brooklyn neighborhood, within the larger Sunset Park, has recently been monikered as Greenwood Heights for its proximity to the
So yes, last week I bought an entire case of fake watches on Canal Street. I’ve been seeing this guy for the longest time with the most beautiful cases of watches, and a couple weeks ago things clicked, that this would be an important thing to save and document. And you know what was the
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On the corner of Canal and Greene is a crossroads for luxury in NYC. A hive of luxury spread. Or a symptom of it. There are few places in the world where you can experience fashion in the way you can here. The northern end of Greene Street is where you get the real handbags;
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One of the most fascinating parts of my job is meeting people from all over the world. And with this, I get to see firsthand the perceptions that people have of New York. The trends, the thoughts, the questions. For instance, New York was remarkably safe during the 2010s, which somehow lead to a trend
