Summer Voyeur, Photos from a Steamy Manhattan
Learning to see differently (and my summer dance playlist)
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It is hot in New York this summer. I don’t try to escape it, I don’t do the Hamptons, and I don’t like the beach. Instead, I stay in East Village, where the streets are emptier during the day and my favorite restaurants are easier to get in at night. Whoever does remain in the city is trauma bonded by the heat.
I have gone out to photograph only once. My usual street photography photos are based on social interactions and the environment, but I got bored of taking the same photo over and over again. Instead, I walked through the heat, focusing on fragments of light, skin, and movement. Learning to see differently is infinitely more difficult than developing a style; it feels like re-learning photography all over again. Here are those experiments as well as my dance-heavy summer playlist.
🎶Spotify Playlist 🎶 With new music from Jamie XX, Charlotte Adigery, Nicolas Jaar and some old favorites.
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Bravo, Dina. Spot-on sentiment about 'learning to see differently' and how hard that is, especially out on the street where it is easy to fall into old rhythms and falsely feel satisfied, that I 'got' something.
These are fantastic! Keep experimenting! 👏