Posts from the ‘New York City’ Category
Brazilian graffiti comes to New York City
I’ve loved Brazilian graffiti since I began photographing it in Sao Paulo in August of 2008. That project culminated in a slideshow for the Travel Channel’s website World Hum, but my passion for photographing it hasn’t abated. When I read in The New York Times that two famous Brazilian graffiti artists, Os Gêmios, had painted a mural in downtown New York City, I got on the subway and decided to check it out, and photograph it, for myself. (The accompanying slideshow to the Times story, by Justin Maxon, inspired me to take some of my own photographs.)
In photographing it, I tried to capture not just the beauty and colors of the mural on a large scale, but also the smaller, more intimate scenes depicted. I also wanted to photograph how people interacted with it: seemingly ignoring it as they walked past, or studying it closely.
And finally, the last photograph in the above slideshow comes from the subway nearby. As I was walking down the steps after photographing the mural, I took a photo of the interesting character standing at the entrance– I like that behind him is blue and white New York City-style graffiti, splashed on the wall in the background.
New story: An interview with Gary Shteyngart: “On Travel Writing”
Photo by Marion Ettlinger
It was my pleasure to recently interview Gary Shteyngart, a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure and author of the wildly successful and hilarious books “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” and “Absurdistan.” Read the interview here, which was published as a feature story on World Hum. Shteyngart’s travel writing has been anthologized in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions of the Best American Travel Writing. Take a look at the interview, and I highly recommend you pick up some of his work.
New Columbia University slide show from Obama / McCain event on 9/11
I’m thrilled that a new slide show produced by Columbia University with images from the Obama / McCain event here on 9/11 also includes a photograph I took. You can view the slide show, which contains many striking shots from that day, here. The last image in the show is mine, and I’ve also pasted it in below.
An image of a fish in New York City
I know that this is a random picture to put up on the blog, but I took it yesterday and thought I’d share it. It’s actually from, of all places, a fish tank in the ferry terminal on Staten Island, New York.
