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Personal Work

Super Luxury Meets NYC Housing at Black Box Gallery

— Tim Trautmann

There is this intimate photographic art gallery on Burnside Street called Black Box Gallery. It's operated by Todd Johnson. Every month, Todd selects 54 photographs based on a theme, 24 of which are displayed in the tiny space. The remaining pictures can be viewed in the gallery's online annex.

A large luxury superyacht with a deep navy blue hull, red waterline stripe, and white superstructure is moored at a pier along the Manhattan waterfront, photographed from across the East River in Brooklyn. The vessel's name appears to read "Sycara V" on the hull. Behind the yacht, rusted industrial pier infrastructure and a large grey waterfront building line the shore. Rising above are multiple massive brown brick mid-rise residential housing towers characteristic of Lower East Side public housing complexes. A colorful rooftop mural bearing the number "275" is visible on one of the shorter buildings at left. The sky is clear and hazy blue, with a single small cloud. The contrast between the opulent private yacht and the dense public housing towers behind it is stark.
Super Luxury meets NYC Housing

Landscape and Architecture is the theme for July. One of my pictures was selected. You can view all the photos online or visit the space if you are in the neighborhood.

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