The "Lost in New York" collection is part of a comprehensive location scouting project. My idea was born from my curiosity about spaces and places with artistic presence. My current progress in New York City includes 1248 miles of roads travelled by walking, running and biking. So far, I have scouted 35% of Manhattan, 46% of Brooklyn and still going strong!
On the outskirts of the city, where car horns fade and stray cats play, I continue my search for the real New York. Here, I explore and capture a city lost in time. Traveling down the backstreets, I hunt for urban decay, tarnish, and a more solitary existence. Between lonely roads and abandoned buildings, another world exists: a place caught between the past and future. Not far from the gleaming avenues downtown is where I discover the truth, which is: with every successive new development, an older one lies crumbling and forgotten. This juxtaposition has implications beyond the mere physical condition or desirability of any one location. Instead, I believe this is an iteration of a larger trend: the perpetual, cyclical nature of things, where there is no beginning or end. The present is merely temporary, and the continual progression of time supersedes any status quo we might believe to exist. Looking though a lens of urban exploration, I witness the full spectrum: from new construction, to piles of rubble long since forgotten. While many people obsess over the shiny and new, soon enough the same luster that attracts will eventually repel, as the dust and rust of time settles over even the most precious of metals. While we are distracted, today will soon become yesterday, and things will never be the same. I encourage you to observe your surroundings, because you too might catch yourself caught between the past and future...
Lost in New York
Progress updated as of 4/25/24
1. Warehouse of Color
2. Deterioration Progression
3. One Mans Treasure
4. Road Less Travelled
5. Road from Somewhere
6. Road to Nowhere
7. Walk Down Rainbow Avenue
8. Walk Down Rainbow Avenue 2
9. Waiting in the Station
10. Station Information
11. Pavilion - in the Park - in the Dark
12. Pavilion Interior
13. 30 MIN PHOTO
14. Chinatown at Midnight
15. Jersey Street
16. Street Taxi, West Side
17. Broken Reflections
18. Echoes of Symphonies Past
19. South Brooklyn
20. Untitled
21. On the Corner
22. Red Truck and Abandoned House
23. Yellow House in the Marsh
24. Below the Water Table
25. Pillars of Ruin
26. Jungle Crumble
27. Underneath the Overpass
28. Aerial Jungle
29. Mosco Street
30. Cortlandt Alley
31. Dead End
32. Dead End Reverse
33. Black Cat and Street Art
34. Figures on the Corner
35. Reflections in Blue
36. Great Wave at the Warehouse
37. Light Comes Though
38. Sunset at the River
Made possible with Wandrer.Earth, Garmin, Skyfire, and Photo Ephemeris.
©2014-2024 Nicholas DeWeese Marshall
