Grand Central: People Studies
In 1999 I moved to New York city.
I was completely captivated by the city with its light, its people and its energy. I saved up for months and bought a hulking Sony Mavica FD73 complete with a box of floppy disks to carry around. Each disk could store about 12 images.
One of my favourite features was the manual focus. One evening in Grand Central Station I stood at the west entrance near the Campbell Apartment and took a series of photos of various people standing in front of the dramatic back-lit translucent stone wall at what was the Metrazur restaurant – more recently an Apple Store.
I spent many evenings wandering the city and taking photos. The way people appear abstracted and engulfed by light in this series gives them a kind of ghostly, voyeristic, film noir character that really resonates with my experience of the city.
