New York City is one of the most viewed cities in the world, especially through photography. Postcards, snapshots, and advertisements have enveloped this massive, breathing city in frozen mementos of vivid color. A city that is undeniably full of life with its busy streets, blinking lights, waves of sounds and smells can carry a ship or drown it. This is the New York that most know. I hope to create an alternate perspective with these images; photographically reveal the hidden pieces, moments and movements that are often overlooked or not believed to exist. “Solipsist” is a break down of Manhattan, offering only a rat's eye view of a not so sunny day along the avenues. Setting a Diana+ camera on the ground, I randomly clicked the shutter in search of the existence of the quiet spaces. Using the little plastic camera to record the fleeting seconds of silence, slow motion, and self awareness in relation to the metropolis; A post it note, a mid-week epiphany to the nine to fivers, the dreamers, every inhabitant rushing to get to one end of the island or another, to stop. Stop.
Manhattan isn't alive, the people in it are. The city is just a bed consumed with lovers.
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