I spent the summer working with High Line Art to photograph 27 female artists out on the disused – soon to be torn down – Pier 54, in part a response to a 1971 show at the MoMA entitled Pier 18, which included works from 27 male artists and photographed by Harry Shunk and János Kender.

Read more about the Pier 54 Exhibition:  http://art.thehighline.org/project/pier54/
Now on view through December 13, 2014 in a gallery space at the corner of 11th Avenue and West 20th Street in Manhattan, NY

High Line Art is featuring one artist a day on their Tumblr called Pier Peeks – check out their twitter feed links and view the Pier Peeks at  http://highlineart.tumblr.com/search/pierpeeks and view some highlights below.

HIGH LINE ART TWEETS:

#PierPeeks – highlighting each of the 27 artists in #Pier54. Today’s peek is Leonor Antunes: http://t.co/ciDwP75bSw pic.twitter.com/wlF2QbFFAi — High Line Art (@HighLineArtnyc) November 7, 2014

#PierPeeks – Francisca Benitez and her “Soliloquy in Signs”: http://t.co/dgwo5SYfZr #Pier54 pic.twitter.com/MUSTSU3MeU — High Line Art (@HighLineArtnyc) November 10, 2014

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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:

One of my best friends has never really been happy with me taking photos of her – we’re talking for the last 16 years or so… until her baby Willa came along.

Here’s a few photos of three of my very favorite people, beautifully battling the wind in Prospect Park.

Thank you, sweet Willa!

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.

On Monday night, I was excited to have one of my photographs from the Chasing Sanitation project featured among other artists’ work in Times Square as part of Artists Wanted’s Art Takes Times Square Billboard Premier.  This public event hosted by Questlove from the Roots screened thousands of artists’ work on large electronic screens in the heart of Times Square throughout the night, featured marching bands on stilts, and the final prize was awarded to a substitute teacher from Allentown, PA, Vicki DaSilva, whose luminescent graffiti art will displayed on billboards throughout Times Square for the next 2 weeks.

A little more about Chasing Sanitation:  writer/producer Lisa Dowda and I spent over 2 years chasing sanitation street crews all over New York with our cameras, questions and pens.  In February 2011, through the incredible support of donors through a kickstarter campaign, of over 70 photographs and 15 narratives were on view at a pop-up gallery exhibition in NoHo and was highlighted in this New York Times article as well as the NY Daily News, Channel NY1, and NBC’s NY Non-stop.

This project has been deeply rewarding in so many ways – and seeing two of NY’s sanitation workers on the job displayed on electronic billboards in Times Square was just that.  Their work keeping these busy streets clean so often goes unnoticed, and taking a closer look at the work they do and who they are is big part of what this project was all about.  Thanks, Lisa, for always being such a champion of this project and getting it out there!