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[VIDEO] A Day with Street Photographer Jaylin Da'Shawn in NYC

2025-10-13T12:00:00-04:00

Video Chapters
00:00 Intro: Meet Jaylin Da’Shawn
02:19 Growing Up in Fort Pierce
03:48 Discovering Street Photography
04:55 Making His First Zine, As I Walk
07:25 Documenting Family
10:27 The Battle with Imposter Syndrome
11:42 The "Now What?" Dilemma – Losing Creative Direction
16:02 Why Black & White Over Color
17:20 His Biggest Street Photography Influences
21:11 His Photographic Triggers on the Street
24:18 What He Expected vs. The Reality of NYC Street Photography
27:12 Interaction in Street Photography
28:48 Photographing Clubs and Parties
30:46 Flash Photography and Confidence on the Street
34:41 Does He Feel Closer to Becoming the Photographer He Wants to Be?
37:25 Critical Focus: Starting a Photo YouTube Channel
40:43 The Struggle with Doubt & Repetitiveness in His Work
43:15 Finish This Sentence: "I Take Photos Because..."
43:48 Outro & Where to Find Jaylin

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[VIDEO] A Legend Returns. Martha Cooper Revisits NYC’s Alphabet City

2025-07-15T12:00:00-04:00

A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours with the legendary Martha Cooper. Here's our conversation from that day.

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[WATCH] Adding a Woman’s Touch to NYC Street Photography: Sabrina Santiago

2025-05-01T12:00:00-04:00

Sabrina Santiago (b. 1996) is a New York-based photographer whose work explores identity, community, and self-discovery through the nuances of daily life. Her documentary approach builds on the tradition of street photography to transform fleeting gestures and encounters into intimate reflections on humanity. Grounded in observation and connection, her practice is both a means of storytelling and a tool for self-reflection. Her forthcoming project focuses on communities of color on the street centering on themes of style, coming of age, and cultural identity.

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Watch This Urban Explorer Climb to the Top of the Brooklyn Bridge

2023-12-20T12:00:00-05:00

Brooklyn-based photographer Victor Thomas (previously) is an Urban Explorer and Instagrammer in New York City that scales buildings, rooftops, and bridges to get the perfect aerial view. In this daring video from Thomas, watch as he and a few buddies explore the top of the Brooklyn Bridge during a heavy snow storm.

The Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John A. Roebling. Construction began in 1869 and was completed in 1883. At the time, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.

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[VIDEO] Brooklyn Gang: Bruce Davidson's Photo Essay Highlights Borough's Teenagers in the Summer of 1959

2022-01-07T16:00:00-05:00

Taken in the hot New York summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson’s classic essay Brooklyn Gang, New York, infiltrates a close-knit group of teenagers as they sunbathed, smoked and bloodied each other up. They were young, poor and reckless but the very embodiment of 1950s cool.

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[WATCH] Celebrating the Beauty of Chinatown With The New Yorker

2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00

Henry Chang, the unofficial O.G. of Chinatown, waxes nostalgic for his friend, the famed photographer Corky Lee, and the beauty of the neighborhood’s streets.

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Looking Down on New York City With Photographer and Urban Explorer "Flashing Lights"

2020-06-26T12:00:00-04:00

Urban Explorer, photographer, and Instagrammer flashing.lights has been exploring the City for most of his life, always finding new vantage points to capture amazing photographs of the City from above.

Avid readers of Viewing NYC might recognize some of these photos as we have shared a couple in the past, but the popular Instagrammer uploaded a great collection of his favorite aerial shots and we had to share them with you.

For years I have looked up at the beautiful buildings of the city and I had a strong desire to see the views the buildings held. Over the past year I embarked on a mission to take pictures from some of the rarest, priciest, and stunning views of New York City. These photos were a result of countless hours of networking with building managers, tenants, residents, and anyone else who could help me see the unseen. All shots were taken legally.

Check out @flashing.lights for daily photos of incredible New York City aerial views and street life.

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[VIDEO] These Stunning George Steinmetz Aerial Images Show Empty NYC Under Coronavirus Lockdown

2020-04-20T16:00:00-04:00

Stay-at-home orders have turned America's densest and most vibrant cities into virtual ghost towns, but for one New York photojournalist, the shutdown created a unique chance to document the empty city. Brook Silva-Braga joined George Steinmetz as the latter recounted his unusual helicopter ride around a locked down New York City.

Check out New York Air for more of Steinmetz's work.

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[WATCH] Finding Vivian Maier: a Documentary About the Legendary New York City Street Photographer

2020-03-03T12:00:00-05:00

Finding Vivian Maier is a full-length documentary from directors John Maloof and Charlie Siskel about a grumpy New York City nanny who posthumously became famous for her undiscovered collection of incredible street photography.

This intriguing documentary shuttles from New York to France to Chicago as it traces the life story of the late Vivian Maier, a career nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.

Check out the full documentary for an excellent peek into the photographer's life.

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[WATCH] James and Karla Murray Explore New York City: Little Italy Food Tour

2019-08-13T17:00:00-04:00

Local pro photographers James and Karla Murray (previously) have a relatively new YouTube series in which they explore neighborhoods around New York City from their unique perspective. In this recent episode, watch as they give you a tour of Little Italy and some of the great food you can find there.

In this Little Italy food tour, we visit many generational independently-owned food businesses in the Little Italy neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Little Italy is considered by many as a tourist destination but we visit shops which are close to or well over one hundred years old and definitely worth a visit even for a native New Yorker.

We start the day with a visit to Alleva Dairy, the oldest Italian cheese shop in America. We go inside this iconic Grand Street shop and check out their homemade mozzarella and watch one of their signature heroes being made. We then visit Piemonte Ravioli right next door to Alleva Dairy and look at their vast selection of homemade pastas made fresh daily and purchase some fresh tomato basil and black pepper fettuccine.

We then walk down Grand Street to the corner of Mott where we visit Di Palo's Fine Foods. Inside Di Palo's we speak with the third-generation co-owner Sal Di Palo and purchase some of their delicious Italian cheeses. We also visit E. Rossi & Company, an Italian gift shop located across the street from Piemonte Ravioli, and speak with the third-generation owner Ernest Rossi.

We end the day with a visit to Caffe Reggio on Broome Street at the corner of Mulberry where we not only go inside and see their original interior and extensive selection of homemade Italian pastries, cakes and cookies but sit down with our dog Hudson at their outdoor patio area and enjoy cappuccino, cannolis and their refreshing homemade Italian lemon ice.

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