Tag: Subway
For his current project “Please Mind the Gap,” photographer Weilun Chong took portraits of commuters at the Mass Rapid Transit stations in Singapore and Hong Kong. Instead of minding the aforementioned gap, he’s pausing to catch strangers passing through, from subway car to platform, from vessel to vessel, from one arbitrary moment of their life to the next. […]
While many of us spend our daily subway rides in a zombie-like haze, desperately using our smart devices to zone out the annoyances of fellow commuters, NYC-based Chris Russell makes art. He’s spent the past three years filling 8 accordion-style sketchbooks with illustrations of the subway’s swarm of faces to create his series “Foolish Behavior in the House […]
For the past few weeks, commuters at the Lorimer/Metropolitan L/G subway stop have been privy to a bit of routine-breaking magic. In the place of an ordinary newsstand, hawking candy bars, bottles of water, and outdated magazines, is the Newsstand–a temporary space devoted to selling art of all kinds, its shelves overflowing with zines, records, […]
The NSA is listening, PRISM is ruining the internet and surveillance cameras are everywhere. Bummer. Well, we might as well have a little fun. Here’s our fashion spread, as shot through NY subway surveillance monitors. It was fun until an MTA worker — not a cop — asked me, “You know, we can arrest you for […]
This is not a cartoon. This is real, almost. The MTA is currently testing a giant thirty-foot inflatable “plug” that when filled with air would protect cities’ most vulnerable subway stops from the threat of floods and extreme weather conditions. It would, effectively, “seal off New York’s subways” if natural disaster strikes. This balloon was tested […]
These are the people that make sure you get to work, safe and relatively on time. It was difficult to snap their portraits, as you may imagine, but I set up a stake-out around the Grand Central and Times Square stops this morning to bring you these photos of subway train conductors. Stand clear of […]
We’re not short on New York subway freak-out videos here, but here’s a special gem for your Monday morning, from Russia with love. Or rather, from Russia with VERY, VERY ANGRY. Here’s a gentleman simply trying to use the International Metro Station Stop in St. Petersburg. The only problem is that it’s closed. It’s a […]
Chinese filmmaker Kit Chung has been experimenting with GIFs pulled from a video he made shooting portrait close-ups on Line 2, Beijing’s oldest running subway rail. The voyeuristic loops of subtle facial gestures are a little bit Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests meet Chris Marker’s Passengers. He’s been posting to his Tumblr which also reminds of […]
Members of TWU Local 100 were passing out “Metro(death)Cards” today to raise awareness of their campaign to slow down trains pulling into stations. The MTA opposes the union’s “slow-down plan,” but with subway death tolls the highest since 2007, how is this even a debate? Here’s ANIMAL’s interview with a union rep outside City Hall. (Video: […]
We’ve all snuck photos of fellow subway commuters, but photographer Rebecca Davis went beyond your pedestrian Instagram snap. She calls her project New York Underground “an update” to Walker Evans’ Many Are Called. Davis turned some of her work into this narrative short that plays out like a photo flip-book of interactions. Some sequences of nuances are fantastic. […]
