NY Through the Lens - New York City Photography

Brooklyn Bridge - Under Future Skies. New York City

Old metropolises stood partially intact - lit with a colorful glow that emanated from crowded skies: remains from a future that soared past the earth.

The skies were dark with the exhaust of sky-borne vehicles and burned out stars: remains from a present littered behind the future.

And under the left-over sky-rubble, old architecture rose from the ground stubbornly: remains from a past left behind long ago.

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This is not a phone photo. This is an ongoing side project: surreal future-dystopian (and utopian) cityscapes incorporating iconic NYC architecture and landscapes: part of a larger and strange sort of New York fairy tale series that I am imagining that takes place in the future.

View the other work in this ongoing series here: New York Fairy Tale

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Another Dawn. The Manhattan Bridge. New York City.

You gripped my hands when you told me about this time: a time when cities were rooted to the earth.

Under another dawn’s sky, New York City’s structures reached up like hands grasping at too-far-away stars.

Bridges stretched out like rapidly deteriorating veins in an urban body destined for decay: remnants from a time when it was a feat just to cross over water with nothing but clumsy fossil-fueled vehicles, when our imaginations were limited by a devotion to the ground below.

And I squinted, trying to imagine life bound to the ground with only passing curiosity to lead the eyes to the skies.

In another dawn, would I have looked up at these same structures with some sort of wonder?

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This is not a phone photo. This is an ongoing side project: surreal future-dystopian (and utopian) cityscapes incorporating iconic NYC architecture and landscapes: part of a larger and strange sort of New York fairy tale series that I am imagining that takes place in the future.

View the other work in this ongoing series here: New York Fairy Tale

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Painted Memories. Future New York City. Chrysler Building. Midtown.

We looked at old photos of the metropolises we once called home with their towers reaching up to an unexplored sky. These structures stood tall in a universe full of wonder and dust from an infinite number of stars.

Our breath stopped, caught in our throats as our tears diluted the remnants of paint that had found their way onto these crumbling archaic testaments revealing entire cities beneath the caked, colored surface.

For a brief moment, it was as if our tears had the power to unearth memories from the recesses of time.

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This is not a phone photo. This is an ongoing side project: surreal future-dystopian (and utopian) cityscapes incorporating iconic NYC architecture and landscapes: part of a larger and strange sort of New York fairy tale series that I am imagining that takes place in the future.

View the other work in this ongoing series here: New York Fairy Tale

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Monolith of a distant past. Surreal New York City. Chrysler Building. Midtown.

We kept pieces of the old cities in place to remind us of a time when we were bound to the earth.

Their buildings stood empty yet proud: monoliths constructed in a time when wonder could be extracted from the tiniest of glimpses into an unexplored sky.

They stood there: remnants of times when white clouds were all that was plentiful and when our faces replicated themselves temporarily onto their gleaming facades.

While the rest of the world pushed forward under red skies dotted with emulsified exhaust, we stopped to take in a view of a distant past.

And I scratched our memories into the sky with an old key.

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This is not a phone photo. This is an ongoing side project: surreal future-dystopian (and utopian) cityscapes incorporating iconic NYC architecture and landscapes: part of a larger and strange sort of New York fairy tale series that I am imagining that takes place in the future.

View the other work in this ongoing series here: New York Fairy Tale

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View this photo larger and on black on my Google Plus page

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Buy “Monoliths From a Distant Past - Chrysler Building - New York City” Prints here, email me, or ask for help.