Saturday, May 12, 2018

Half of the Time We're Gone But We Don't Know Where

I started an Instagram account when I moved to New York.  It may be one of the weirder New York Instagrams out there, because it tends to focus on the very specific and unusual museums I work for.  How many people go to New York and photograph beekeeping, cemeteries, hills, trees, ships and 19th century history?  If I do a subject breakdown, museums, architecture, cemeteries and parks lead the way.  

It's a very, very interesting perspective on the city, because it tends not to show the city.  I don't have a single photograph in Times Square, the Chrysler building, the Flatiron building, or a lot of the other visuals people think of in the city.  Aside from a part of the skyline, I don't have World Trade One.  I intended it as a way to show New York to the people back in Iowa, but it still shows me in very specific and obvious ways.  

I'm the only one who went to this New York.