Images of a lone figure crossing the street in an empty Times Square became a cliche of the pandemic. When I started shooting in Times Square last summer, it was because there were people there. It was still a place with a public street life.

In the first photos I took after the pause was declared on Sunday, March 22, 2020, I tried to capture how I felt: anxious, afraid, uncertain about the future. Over the course of two months, the photos began to capture instead the amazing way ordinary people adapted to extraordinary circumstances.

Under the Train uses the high contrast light and shadow created by sunlight coming through the elevated tracks to capture the drama of everyday life in the city.

Waiting for a train just after sunset, as the light turns blue and the tone of the sky darkens to match the tones of the ground, I work like a painter. The result is magic, beauty created by the camera from the movement of the city and the mix of artificial and natural light at the end of the day.

Walk along Third Avenue. It has two levels of traffic, one on the Gowanus Expressway above and the local traffic below, with a meridian full of parked vehicles. The noise of cars and trucks is deafening. Shout louder if you want to tell me something.

The moment that I tuned into the Brooklyn waterfront around 2007 was a transformative one. Years of planning were coming to fruition and the waterfront was under active development.

I was a visiting artist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2015. I had 24 hour access to the public parts of the Yard and was able to photograph there over the course of a year at all hours and in all weather.