In 2005 I was commissioned by Mayor Blumberg to document all five boroughs of New York City for a summer month. The only caveat was that I had to walk each borough, practicing the street photography I began in New York City as a kid. I had returned to New York a few years before and was just getting to know a very different city post 9/11 than the terrifying one I grew up in and fled for California in the 1970’s. The project was successful and I was brought back to do it again for another month in 2006. 

After that, I never stopped my practice of street photography in New York City. Although we have since moved upstate, periodically I make time to go down and roam the streets looking for those fleeting moments that help me understand this complicated town. One day I came across the spectacular Santiago Calatrava designed Oculus sitting like a crashed alien artifact atop the new subway hub in lower Manhattan. 

As stunning as Calatrava’s structure is, upon my first visit I became entranced not with the soaring, wing-like ceiling, but with the bright, white floor. It's the perfect stage set upon which the tide of humanity passing by can reveal clues about their lives and relationships. So whenever I visit I take my place on the floors above just watching and waiting for a picture to happen down below; small miracles unfolding within milleseconds that often reveal something of the human experience we all share.