Between Seconds, 2015 to 2020 is a collection of images curated from photographic exploration in and around the NYC metro area starting in 2015 and up to the beginning of 2020 and the onset of the novel Coronavirus. In these years of roaming the streets with my camera, I have witnessed the solitude of the human experience, the unseen beauty of the world, and how they often intersect. 

Photography is my chosen medium to record and translate these experiences. Quite often my own image is reflected in the windows of the city, and at 6’, 5” my presence is significant and noticeable to the people around me and in the image itself. The look of solitude reveals itself in many forms, found as motifs in my images - the unconscious gesture, parting glance, and the random elegance of the physical world. Discovering these moments gives the images a buoyant and inquisitive tone. The images in this book are rife with tension between the subject and the see-er and often showcase the odd and awkward serendipity of being in public, and the folly of the streets. The colors found in a rain-soaked street or a stranger gliding through a reflection, even a stoic sunrise or melting sunset - a quick cigarette or clandestine phone call that is a forgotten part of the day. 

To recognize these visual moments and to capture them is my goal as an image-maker. Roaming the streets of Manhattan I find myself haunting certain spots. The canyons of Mid-town where daily life unfolds nine to five and I follow the sun as it blankets the bustling streets that are populated by office workers intent on achieving their personal agendas. The people captured here are either on their way to or departing from a moment in their lives. Perhaps they’re collecting their thoughts, or safely navigating the chaos of the streets around them, and I want to be there to catch those precious seconds. Sometimes my interactions with strangers in these images can elicit surprise from the subject, and that is my intention–to politely interact and use my camera to witness these unguarded moments of their lives, and I can connect with them even fleetingly through the viewfinder. 

There is nothing accidental about this exploration, whether it’s a reflection and my place in it, or the people who populate the city streets and subways. With these images I try to harness the unvarnished days of the lives around me and the concrete city which remains beautiful. The colors and sounds of the city are sometimes overlooked but with calm and measured looking it’s easy to record them. 

The photographs in ‘Between Seconds’ are a pronouncement of my own loneliness and my never-ending search for opportunities of my artistic expression.