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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “My Lost City”

April 24, 2015Posted in New YorkTagged aerial, airplane, city, cityscape, landscape, Leica, manhattan, my lost city, mylostcity, new york, New York City, newyork, newyorkcity, quote, urban4 Comments

“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city extending as far as the eyes could see, so now I went to the roof of that last and most magnificent of towers.
Then I understood. Everything was explained. I had discovered the crowning error of the city. Its Pandora’s box.

Full of vaunting pride, the New Yorker had climbed here, and seen with dismay what he had never suspected. That the city was not the endless sucession of canyons that he had supposed, but that it had limits, fading out into the country on all sides into an expanse of green and blue. That alone was limitless.

And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining ediface that he had reared in his mind came crashing down.

That was the gift of Alfred Smith to the citizens of New York.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Lost City: Personal Essays 1920-40

More New York HERE

Manhattan from Above

April 9, 2015Posted in New YorkTagged aerial, B&W, black & white, black and white, blackandwhite, helicopter, manhattan, new york, New York City, newyork, newyorkcity, nyc8 Comments

Being a photographer means always finding yourself in interesting new places and having crazy new experiences. For the #TiffanyNYMinute we found ourselves literally on top of Manhattan in a helicopter to capture the opening aerial shots… and I was terrified. Though the view was so stunning and thrilling to see the city I know so well in a new intimate way I pretty much felt as if we would fall from the sky at any second. But then again, I have an over active imagination.

Though Kevin and I were mostly rolling video footage I did manage to snap a few stills with my Leica in-between the mini-panic attacks I was hiding on the inside. The ground never felt so good.

P.S.~ New York Helicopter allows you to charter a ride for photographic purposes where you can fly anywhere you want and direct the pilot to certain areas or buildings, angles, etc. They also have windows you can open to shoot out of so you’re not hanging out like these guys….

* Seeing New York *

* New York in the Spring *

* New York in the Fog *

* New York in the Summer *

* Fashion on the Streets of New York *

“Fly the ocean in a silver plane…”

July 18, 2014Posted in TravelTagged airplanes, atlantic ocean, B&W, b&w film, b&w photography, black and white, blackandwhite, fly, flying, freelance, journey, new york, New York City, newyork, newyorkcity, nyc, plane, planes, travel, traveling, trip9 Comments

“…see the jungle when it’s wet with rain…”

As I write this, I am somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the United States. I always request a window seat because you never know when you’re going to get that perfect shot of the sun rising over South America or see a distant thunderstorm illuminate the horizon on your descent into Singapore. I was just lost in thought gazing out the window and thinking about how flying’s magic is not lost on me. The fact that you can close your eyes in New York and wake up in a world you’ve only dreamed of in what seems like minutes still leaves me in childlike wonder.

I ponder sometimes if the pace of our distances allows us more or less? What would Darwin have accomplished in the era of air travel? Part of being a freelancer is never knowing which way the current will take you nor how hard the undertow will be but I feel so incredibly lucky to have seen so much of the world through my lens. I haven’t yet figured out what the ultimate influence will be on my life’s work of all the lands I’ve seen, and to be honest I am still exploring…it’s true what they say: “The more I travel, the less I know.”

Cover image originally from HERE

Second image is flying out from New York

Why do we look at photographs?

July 14, 2014Posted in New YorkTagged B&W, b&w film, b&wfilm, black and white, blackandwhite, film, franklin, franklin street, franklinstreet, hasselblad, iheartny, new york, New York City, newyork, newyorkcity, nyc, tri-x, tribeca14 Comments

A photograph is a moment of our time in life, a brief slice of happening. It’s the capturing of a memory, holding far more detail than we can ever comprehend…the way the light looked, the way it felt to be there. Sometimes, if the photograph is good enough, you can smell the air, feel it along your skin.

You can look at a good photograph and feel it come alive, the image dancing into a mirage of your memories – are they real? are they fact? – blurring the lines between what is my remembering and what is yours, what is a dream and what is your own reality.

I’ve been here before…or have I? I look at this photograph and I hear my heels click on the cobblestone walkway. I am sure I was here. In heels? Perhaps not…that’s something I’ve only dreamt about.

DEGEN

February 18, 2014March 24, 2014Posted in Fashion ReportageTagged degen, design, designer, Ecco Domani, ecco domani fashion foundation, eccodomani, EDFF, fashion, fashion reportage, interview, knitwear, lindsay degen, lindsaydegen, new york, New York City, New York Fashion Week, newyorkcity, nyc, nyfw, reportageLeave a comment

Yesterday we had the chance to hang out with the designers behind Timo Weiland, and today we venture further into the world of knits with fellow Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award winner, Lindsay Degen of DEGEN.

Lindsay admitted to us that she was thrilled and surprised by the call that she had won, as her aesthetic is “kind of crazy”…working solely in knitwear, her past collections have explored and delved into various topics surrounding the body, ranging from cultural anxieties to microscopic views of DNA and bacteria.

Her presentation this season featured live knitters in addition to male and female models, Crocs, and LED lights as well as various new materials knitted into the funky pieces she is known for.

To start off…how excited are you to be a winner of the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award?

I’m super excited about it. I thought there was no way I would ever get it, because – if you look at the list of designers, they’re all incredible well-known designers, and none of them really have a really crazy, out-there aesthetic. They all look different, but my line aesthetically doesn’t really fit in with the bunch. So I was super excited that they chose me, because it’s a real honor to be lumped in with those other designers. Additionally there’s only one other knitwear designer – Tom Scott – who has won it, and while he has mostly knitwear he also has some woven, so I was really glad to hold down the knitwear niche.

[The grant money] is allowing me to make a 20-foot interactive LED rainbow for my presentation. I really wanted to do it this season anyway, but it allowed me to do it in a less makeshift way. It looks so good, I can’t wait.

A 20 foot rainbow??

This collection, I’m introducing some bizarre things, including fishing line and reflective yarn…because I was inspired by all these materials I’d never used before, I was having all these moments of “Wow, I’ve never had these moments before, I never knew knitting could be like this.” I wanted the viewers to have a similar experience, but they wouldn’t have that by watching someone knit. I thought, “What makes people go wow, what are we amazed by as children?” And the answer was rainbows. It’s the craziest thing nature does.

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Seeing New York

November 8, 2013January 12, 2014Posted in Cinemagraphs, New YorkTagged #FramesOfLife, #FramesOfYou, armani, cafe condesa, cinemagraph, cinemagraphs, coffee, frames, Giorgio Armani, giorgioArmani, girogio armani frames, grand central, grandcentral, new york, New York City, newyork, newyorkcity, NYT55 Comments

As a photographer I show you the world through my lens on a daily basis. We all look at New York, she demands our focused attention. I’ve been thinking about the art of looking. The importance of focusing and what we see. This past March I bought a pair of Giorgio Armani frames in Geneva, classic per usual, and I decided to put them in front of the frame. To see what I see.

To show you a day in New York through my lens…

Giorgio Armani’s #FramesOfYou / my Giorgio Armani frames

OTHER Armani beauties

One Night Only

October 28, 2013October 29, 2013Posted in Fashion ReportageTagged armani, fashion, fashion reportage, Giorgio Armani, giorgio armani privé, giorgioArmani, New York City, newyorkcity, nyc, one night only, onenightonlynyc, reportage, superpier8 Comments

For one night only…

On that night, we celebrated Giorgio Armani and his special relationship with the city of New York – one that spans several years of creativity, economy, and philanthropy.

In addition to the exhibition Eccentrico, to celebrate this great fashion legend models graced the catwalk wearing pieces from the Giorgio Armani Privé collections running from 2005 to present day, fashion in the utmost of glamour. Hosted at SuperPier, which had been partially custom-designed just for the event, the show was breathtaking and such an inspiring reminder of the talent we were honoring.

Giorgio Armani said, “A great show presenting my Haute Couture collections to the American public for the first time is my way of saying thank you. I’m looking forward to spending a memorable evening surrounded by the many friends I have made there over the years.”

And what a wonderful night it was…

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