Subwaygram

For more than a century, New York City's subway has carried riders through wars, economic collapse, and a major hurricane. The millions of people who depend on it every day have weathered those hardships alongside it, and this book holds that both the system and its riders will also get through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The street portraits here were taken on mobile phones and show the many kinds of people who ride the trains. They were made in the two years before and the two years after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in New York City. Across these images, the book looks for what strangers have in common during the brief stretches they share on their journeys.