Artist Danh Vo’s new exhibition We The People is on view now from the Public Art Fund at the Brooklyn Bridge Park and City Hall Park.  Vo has recreated full scale replicas of the Statue of Liberty in individual segments that are not intended to be pieced together and are on view throughout the two parks.  Read more about the exhibition: https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people

The opening last week was in the perfect location on a hill on Pier 3 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the central piece being a fragment of Lady Liberty’s sleeve overlooking the Manhattan skyline and many sites including the Statue of Liberty herself in whole. And it took place on a perfect evening after morning showers and some brief sun had evolved into a dreamy fog settling over Manhattan.

Since I can’t bombard Instagram with more than a photo or 2, I’ve included some of my favorite cell phone highlights from the evening ~ featuring the sleeve with bridges and boats and more…

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sleeve with pier & Manhattan skyline views:

sleeve with the Statue of Liberty:

sleeve with the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges:

detail of sleeve with the Brooklyn Bridge:

sleeve with sailboat:

disappearing Manhattan skyline in the fog:

Instagram = fleeting photos;

I have fallen hard for Instagram ~ in a photographer’s world of large photo files and overshooting and working with tons of photos every day, it’s allowed me a place to quickly document the small moments in a day that give me pause. And in New York, those moments happen all the time.

But not many people these days have the patience to go through a person’s entire feed of photos – you discover someone on Instagram and you probably scroll through a few pages of their most recent photos. Someone’s beautiful photo taken a year ago stays hidden to most. So there is a sense of impermanence.  And one thing that often gets lost in the speed of the mobile photography — letting a photo stay with you, re-visiting that photo that moved you to understand why you clicked ♡like, or to take a photo of that moment.

The city, too, is full of fleeting moments – fast paced with movements and a rhythm that creates a symphony all around us.

Here, a page of some city moments to keep re-visiting.

I have started this blog as a thank you to everyone who is patiently waiting for your photos ~ I think about all of you as I go through your beautiful photos and hope to share some of your photos here while you wait.

Sometimes I still can’t believe that I get to do what I love doing for a living – the I want to be a photographer when I grow up has worked- though like most of us, I’m still growing up and like most of us, I need more time in every day.  In particular because of another job I love working for a human rights organization, it’s a crazy schedule.  There seems to be just enough time for photo sessions and assignments, leaving not enough time to edit and share the many many photos from those shoots or make prints and dvds.

But there is a whole lot of love into every step and hope it’s more than worth the wait.

Here are some photos of the stunning Elizabeth from last fall – we’d planned to do some bridal portraits in the summer before her wedding, but at the last minute decided it would be way more fun to traipse around Manhattan in her dress AFTER the wedding, when she wouldn’t have to worry about getting it dirty, say, playing in leaves in Central Park.  Portraits don’t get more fun than this!