11.07.07

Prospect Park
by Joseph O Holmes

For the past few years, in addition to specific projects, I‘ve been engaging in all sorts of street photography around New York City. After all this time, I still feel like I’m barely scratching the surface. Just when I think I’ve got a handle on capturing these famously gritty streets, I turn a corner and realize just how infinitely deep and rich this town really is.

This shot of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, taken the morning after a snow storm in 2005, is a case in point. At first glance it might be mistaken for a wilderness landscape. Then the lamps lining the path come into focus, tiny details emerge, and the wilderness hiker becomes a dog walker; New York City proves to be as hard to pin down as ever. Even when I'm the middle of other projects, exploring other ideas and subjects, the promise of discoveries like this one send me back out into the streets to try to nudge the city into revealing itself again.