‘The Lower East Side’s history, its cultural legacy, and the visual trove of 19th and 20th-century imagery of the area, as I knew it then, were navigational tools. And while the cultural and socioeconomic events of the time no doubt subconsciously influenced my practice, I simply went out and photographed, unencumbered by the “bigger picture” of what I was doing, responding instinctively to my environs, drawn in by fleeting moments, gestures, colour and light’
English (US)