Hoku, who is a little bit of a badass, and a little bit of a sweetheart.

Hoku

[Reanna](https://www.instagram.com/ruetookthis/), sick skate photographer, trying on faces around the corner from exposure therapy.

Reanna

[Britt](https://brittbolton.com/), at her jewelry workshop at The Hunt, preparing to send some rings to the casters, and planning her father's memorial.

Britt

Ayelah and Emme, walking into an empty Washington Square Park on a rainy afternoon.

Ayelah and Emme

Rown, long time server at our favorite ramen spot, Menkoi Sato.

Rown

Theo, who barely seemed to have missed us over the weekend while the grandparents watched and played with him.

Don Kilcoyne, running for Warwick Town Board, who wants more of their decisions to be made out in the open.

Erica, getting ready in a 235 year old house on one farm for a wedding party on another.

Erica

Dante, the day after his wedding, the day before the celebration, in his hometown of Warwick, NY.

Dante

Isa, who keeps the line growing and moving at [welcome home](https://www.instagram.com/welcomehome.bk), now my regular bakery.

Theo, visiting Home Depot for the first time in his life.

Theo

[Shekhar](https://shreyans.org/portraits/61), now also a father, at the red clay courts by the river.

Shekhar

[Janna](https://www.instagram.com/jannaj_/), whose necklace spells the name of her first EP, '[Lovesuite](https://open.spotify.com/album/2tsb7F0w8GGQyrYr7GnqIV)', sitting in perfect light in the corner of the wine bar.

Janna

Amira, who plans to sit in the sun and do nothing else on this perfect Monday, stretching and hanging but not climbing the art with Naim at Herbert von King.

Amira

Jesse on his 36th birthday, and Luna with all the spikeballs, who quietly called for Theo, and sweetly said 'bye' when we left.

Jesse and Luna

Vigo, weeks away from becoming a father, reacting to seeing Theo amidst St James Joy, an hour before the downpour drenched everyone.

Vigo

[Jabari](https://www.instagram.com/barixsafarivisuals/), who has been taking photos on the streets of Brooklyn for the last 5 years, and sets up outside the Brooklyn Museum every Saturday.

Jabari

Or, who says its the photographer but it's really the subject.

Katie, who wants to work at the archives of a museum after NYU, at the photo show at the Armory.

Katie

[Keya](https://www.instagram.com/keyagoldfein/), carrying copies of her photobook printed on pink shimmering paper, at the photo show at the Armory, where she looked quite unlike anyone else.

Keya

Angel, part time sculptor, carving a wood figure on a Prospect Park bench on his day off.

Angel

Evelyn wearing the Easter bonnet she made for this year's Easter Parade.

Evelyn

Georgia, painting over the graffiti on the door to her pilates studio, something she has to do every week.

Georgia

[JoJo, costume designer](https://instagram.com/jojo.clubkid), who makes the kookiest costumes that you [should](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc-bwuGrufe) [see](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cci5KrNL3Hh), at the top of the Williamsburg Bridge, heading in to make an Easter costume.

JoJo

[Malka](https://www.instagram.com/malkahynan/) outside Evan and Carla's photo show at Ants Coffee.

Malka

Carla on Sunday at Ants Coffee, where her boyfriend DJ'd, and she curated an art show.

Dani and Gaby, on the way to their jobs at the mall in Norwalk, CT.

Dani and Gaby

Thraa, who owns Moe's Doughs on Nassau, and sells those doughnuts for way too little.

Thraa

Judah, who hasn't raised his price in 23 years, who shone my scuffed boots on West 3rd and Macdougal for $1.

Judah

Sabine, who can help anyone with regular length arms find a suit, who was on the verge of returning to Europe when she met [Julian](/portraits/57) at [Ebreo](https://www.instagram.com/ebreo_vintage).

Sabine

Gabe, making a few of the thousands of decisions needed for his upcoming [restaurant](https://www.instagram.com/paolina.nyc/).

Gabe

Jason, heading home from the dentist and a day of tiling.

Jason

[Evan](https://www.instagram.com/catkiller___/), photographer, figuring out which photos to show on Sunday at Ants Coffee, with Carla and Kyle.

Evan

Imani, Jordan, and the spirit of Frank Pepe in New Haven.

Imani

Don, 84, dropping into the bachelor party to play blackjack with his son.

Charles, the first familiar face we see back in Brooklyn, 18 years delivering for UPS, 7 years away from a pension.

Charles

Kate

Theo's last hours with dada and dadi in Bangalore.

Bhagya and Sita Mahalaxmi, her cow, collecting alms and blessings on 100 Feet Road. Bangalore.

Bhagya and Sita Mahalaxmi

Sannan, 10, heading to a day of training at the Karnataka Institute of Cricket in Bangalore.

Sannan

Flowers, fabrics, childcare at the worksite.

Under the Indiranagar Metro in the morning. Laxman opening his 5 Star 'Laundary', Tulsi making egg dosas out her front door, the airline employee walking to the Metro

Bhagyalaxmi, at her ladies tailoring shop, one lane behind the main road and the Metro.

Bhagyalaxmi

Galle Fort on the day of the ['Lover's Quarrel'](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%E2%80%93Mahinda_Cricket_Encounter) cricket match and New Year's celebrations.

Shaini and her friends on the Galle Fort walls at sunset.

Shaini

It's always endearing to see who gravitates towards babies. At Taru Villas inside Galle Fort.

Chana, who we passed by many times a day in Hiriketiya.

Chana

Jayantha with his grandkids, outside his beachfront restaurant with his name on the wall.

Jayantha

Sheena, who owns a yoga studio in Victoria, BC and just ran her first yoga retreat, on her day off. Hiriketiya Beach, Sri Lanka.

Sheena

Baby's first swim, minutes before the monkey gang took over the pool.

Nishankar, waiting for a tuk tuk passenger at the very end of Hiriketiya Beach.

Nishankar

Sunetra, sitting out a hot afternoon, waiting for the sunset crowd to arrive. Hiriketiya, Sri Lanka.

Sunetra

Annaprashan - the Malayali 'first food' ceremony - where Theo ate his first solid food: rice, four ways.

Papa on the plot of land where we hope to build around the trees at the end of my shortest trip to Jodhpur.

Morning at the market; already too damn hot by 10am.

Cousins, haveji, and the living room that's open to the sky.

Every Bhansali baby has been blessed at this temple.

Almost got heatstroke. The kids seemed unaffected. Saw two of Vinny's spots in Bangalore.

Theo with his not-bhua and not-phupha, on his 6 month birthday, and his first day in India.

The two babies in this picture already have Rafa Nadal Academy plans

He can now make surprisingly far moves in a minute

Rob made an excellent red sauce bucatini and I stayed for the first 10 minutes of White Lotus S3E3