To The Five Boroughs

New York Scenes

From Central Park to the Statue of Liberty, from the 'Met' to Katz's Deli, the myriad of urban landscapes within New York provides limitless inspiration for the photographer. With such a variety of sights the best way, perhaps, to capture the atmosphere of the city in photographs is to disregard the map and wander. Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the pioneers of such reportage street photography, occasionally used to print photographs with the film border and sprocket holes still showing, as a way to show the image had not been reframed. Perhaps it was his own way of ensuring that the best image was captured in the original moment. Collected here are images from street level New York, scanned with Cartier-Bresson's technique in mind. For reference, they were taken on Ilford Delta 400 monochrome film with a Leica 3f.

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Cloud Piercer

Standing over 3700m tall, Aoraki Mount Cook is New Zealand's tallest mountain. It shares its bed with other mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps that run up along the west coast of South Island like the spine of a fern leaf. Peeling away from the spine are several valleys, which serve as access routes into this spectacular mountain range. The 40km drive into Aoraki Mount Cook base village begins at the head of Lake Pukaki, a lake formed from the meltwater of two glaciers - Tasman and Hooker - that pumice the feet of their masters in a yearly cycle of advance and retreat. Above these glaciers rise siblings of Mount Cook that can be climbed with relative ease. Images from such locations are included in the following collection, alongside other views of New Zealand's tallest mountain and its surrounding neighbourhood.

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