New York City

I recently spent around 5 days in New York City, right in the heart of Manhattan. This was my first time abroad, first time flying, first time experiencing a completely new way of travelling.

This experience was liberating. Being somewhere completely new was freeing, and it gave me so much inspiration. I’m currently working on my Major Project which is all about experiencing life on foot as opposed to the fast paced means of transport such as cars or trains. This trip was the perfect opportunity for me to put this way of thinking into practice, and I took full advantage by cramming nearly 120,000 steps into my time in the city.

I found New York to be an incredible place to visit. The lights, the colour, the culture, the architecture, and the overall architecture was a spectacle, and every inch of the city was bustling with life at any minute of the day. I’d never been somewhere that felt so alive.

The City That Never Sleeps.

The main purpose of my Major Project is to learn to live more. What I mean is that I want to learn how to slow down, engage with the world around me better and on a deeper level than I have before. In an age of information overload, worsening attention spans, and a greater technological reliance, I aim to step back and focus on being present more, noticing more, and becoming a more engaged observer of the world. New York City was the perfect place to put this into practice due to the sheer quantity of visual stimuli there was to observe.

I read a quote recently that stated that the purpose of that photographers imagery was to “prove that they were there and paying attention”, and I hope to replicate that effect within my own images. None of the images in this post are particularly touristy (though I did take plenty of those…), but they are references and visual observations from my many wanders around New York City.

With all that said, I should probably share some images…