New York is probably the most photographed city in the world. Its iconography is so powerful that it often risks cancelling out any new gaze that approaches it without a clear position.
Skyscrapers, yellow cabs, crowds, urban solitude: everything seems already seen. And yet, the ten projects brought together here prove that New York is far from exhausted as a photographic subject. It remains fertile ground when photographers understand the city not as a backdrop, but as a system, as an experience sustained over time.
Josef Buergi turns to black and white in The New York Mosaic to distill the city’s graphic essence. Without color, New York is reduced to lines, contrasts, and volumes. Architecture sets the rhythm, and human figures appear as quiet notes within a larger composition. It is a gaze that seeks the timeless, moving away from anecdote to uncover a lasting visual structure.