“Each man reads his own meaning into New York” – Meyer Berger

After 5 years living in this great city, it is time to exhibit some black and white photographs looking back at my New York Experience so far. The city provides an amazing backdrop to photograph, not only in its architecture, streets and parks, but also its people, the multi-cultural and multi-faith melting pot that are the 5 boroughs of New York.

The city is a unique oasis of diversity within the United States, that no other city can compare to. In truth the world resides in New York, in every nook and cranny of this city you can find a corner of a foreign land, and in these corners a ‘home like’ environment has been created, a hommage to the father (or mother) land.

These corners are what make New York. It’s what the boroughs were built upon; a cast of runaways, aspiree’s, the odd local, all drawn to the concrete jungle and its bright lights. Each with their own hopes and dreams, bringing with them their guilty pleasures of home. Guilt which I am not free of, with homesick walks to Tea & Sympathy or Myers of Keswick.

But in essence I am writing about a city that is a true Empire in its own right, an Empire City of unified diversity. Don’t get me wrong I did not say we we are always polite, but as Berger states each man trully reads his own meaning into New York – These photographs are my meaning.