Intersection

Anyone who’s walked around a city looking up at the grandeur of the towering buildings knows how small you can feel amid such giants. With my ongoing Intersection series, I wanted to instead look down from those dizzying heights and capture an unusual and altered perspective on the familiar and rhythmic city life below. While there’s undeniable beauty in abstracting architecture into angles and reflections, I was fascinated even more by the unique character of each city that could still be perceived from far above.

In New York, you feel the energy and flow of the city—the constant stream of yellow taxis lining the avenues, the waves of pedestrians hurriedly crossing at the change of traffic signals, little figures disappearing into the subway stations, the chorus of honking horns and sirens. High above the streets of other cities it’s quite different. In Tokyo, for example, the order and geometry of perfectly parallel lines, precise angles, and thoughtful proportion reflect the society’s meticulous attention to detail and artistic presentation.

I’ve also returned to some locations to photograph at different times of day. The feeling of a city from above completely changes from daytime through twilight and into darkness.

Midtown, New York City

Ginza, Tokyo

Midtown East, New York City

6th Avenue, New York City

Financial District, New York City

Wan Chai, Hong Kong

6th Avenue, New York City

Midtown, New York City

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City

Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Ginza, Tokyo

6th Avenue, New York City

Chelsea, New York City

Ginza, Tokyo

Midtown, New York City

California Street, San Francisco

Chelsea, New York City

Midtown, New York City

Intersection

Anyone who has walked through a city and looked up at its towering buildings knows the smallness you can feel among them. With my ongoing Intersection series, I chose to reverse that perspective, looking down from those dizzying heights to capture a shifted view of the familiar rhythms unfolding below. From above, the city resolves into patterns that often go unnoticed at street level.

Streams of taxis line the avenues, pedestrians surge across intersections at the change of light, and small figures disappear into subway entrances. The sounds and movement that define urban life soften into a kind of choreography. Even from far above, the character of a city remains visible, its pace and underlying structure shaping the flow of daily life.