Summer in the City
By Sheridan Smith
New York City
Summer, 2022
New York City takes on a new, distinctive character during the summer months. Enhancing the city's unique sense of intimacy, May, June, July, and August create a brutal and eccentric environment which calls privacy illusory and authenticity inevitable. The streets are lined with leaking hydrants, empty bottles, bursts of color, orphaned furniture, and citi-bikers in dress shoes. This project paints a portrait of the New York City streets and their bold inhabitants.
How can one place be so inviting, and so unwelcoming? This project is intended to represent the paradoxical nature of summer in the city in a new, post-pandemic reality. Moving from day to night, the sequence of images imitates a walk through the neighbored scenes of Manhattan in the summer of 2022.
