He recently had a exhibition opening at Joe’s Coffee shop in Chelsea that’ll be there until about April or so. I know it’s pretty standard and somewhat boring to have pictures of New York City, but incredibly, John takes a refreshingly new and original approach to New York photography.
Almost all of his prints have a candy-colored quality that you’d commonly see in urban photos of Tokyo. John looks for the brightness in otherwise mundane structures and objects and turns what is in my opinion, the complete exhaustion of the idea of New York as a gritty, hard, and overwhelmingly urban and cold, completely on its head. Everything is a bit idealized, but still grounded in the reality that it’s not the easiest thing in the world to live here– you just really, really have to love it.
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