During a vacation to New York City, I wanted to take advantage of the metropolitan landscapes to create a black and white series. Manhattan’s skyscrapers were the perfect subject with their monolithic scale and architecture. This was my first time visiting this city, so I sought out mostly tourist attractions like Times Square, Central Park, the many subway stations, and popular restaurants.
The black and white works well to bring out the lines, textures, and shapes which compose New York’s bustling atmosphere. I intentionally avoided street photography or pictures of singular individuals to focus more on the scale of the buildings and how human beings fit into the overall scene.
For some of these pieces I decided to accentuate them in Photoshop by giving them a more “glitched” feeling, which I’m quite fond of in my work. This made the already stunning magnitude of the metropolis even more surreal by giving it a technical and distorted aesthetic.