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Corona Cityscapes: Photographs by Alexei Hay

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Thursday, 24 June 2021 to Tuesday, 31 August 2021
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Thursday, 24 June 2021 - 5:00pm

Armed with masks, gloves, an 8x10 large format camera and a healthy dose of fear, during the first few weeks of New York City’s COVID-19 lockdown photographer Alexei Hay and master printer David Frawley drove a bucket truck to New York City’s busiest intersections. Rising several stories off the ground with the help of the truck’s hydraulic crane to photograph streets that usually embody the city’s hustle-and-bustle, Hay’s pictures instead display an eerie stillness. The stories his photographs tell are now familiar: Empty Manhattan streets are no longer unthinkable. However, at the time these pictures were taken in March and April of 2020, the reality that Hay’s camera captured felt like the beginning of a dystopian nightmare with little tangible logic. Hay depicts this moment’s enormity through its quietness, through the built city’s permanence and its residents’ temporary disappearance. These photographs visually document the start of an evolving and ongoing historic era. Over a year into the pandemic, these photographs evoke nostalgia and trauma, embodying the anxiety of a time of fear and uncertainty when the question on everybody’s lips was, what now?

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Tuesday – Friday: 1-7 PM
Sunday: 12-6 PM
Any other day by appointment
Please Contact: AlexeiHay@nadinejohnson.com | +1.212.228.5555

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436 West Broadway
New York, NY 10012

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