Sadie and Alana, smoking a cig before walking into Beacon's Closet.

Sadie and Alana

Sam, whose parents own Apple Arts, which has been on Dekalb since 1940.

Claire, who brought ramp butter for everyone at dinner.

Claire

Amber, taking her sick son out for a walk in the basket of her cargo bike.

Amber

Picture man Bob Greco, making Red Brick Square come alive with his Polaroids and his friends.

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

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

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

Katie

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

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

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

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

Bhagyalaxmi

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

Shaini

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

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

Kate, at the end of a short trip to Sarasota.

Ingrid, seeing her granddaughter pregnant for the first time, on the day of the baby shower.

Ingrid

Carter, Kate's nephew in Sarasota, who can do a backflip and play Master of Puppets on guitar, both of which he learned since I last saw him in December.

Carter

Shekhar, my consistent Wednesday morning tennis partner for the second summer in a row, who has taught me to drop my wrist and to run to the net.

James Cavello, owner of the [Westwood Gallery](https://westwoodgallery.com/), sharing stories from his decades in the art world and telling me to sharpen the purpose of this project and to find a theme, after we checked out the [Loft Law](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwdfExcdnc) exhibition by Joshua Charow.

James

Stevie, over for dinner after Mister Sunday.

Stevie

Kai, drawing on and with her friends on a stoop in the East Village.

Julian, vending outside, and setting up inside at his new space for [Ebreo Vintage](https://instagram.com/ebreo_vintage).

Julian

[Thomas](https://www.instagram.com/deeptheta), artist, record selector, biking back from skateboarding at Tompkins Square Park, and thinking about bringing his Flickr back.

Thomas

Kate, potting plants out front, and chatting with passerbys like Barbara about the heirloom roses that cover the facade and spill over the sides.

Arinn, former Air Force Academy gymnast, holding every muscle perfectly taut and still.

Arinn

Rob at Lincoln Terrace on a beautiful late spring morning, where we somehow managed to snag a court, in the weeks before Substrate launches.

[Mimi](https://www.instagram.com/m0mi_art/), who paints murals and teaches high school kids how to do it too, with Mahogany at the park.

Mimi

Sam, who picked up a red scarf from the rack at the stoop sale to keep the constant drizzle away.

[Kortina](https://kortina.nyc), my oldest friend in North America, from whom I've learned a lot about a lot, currently editing a [video essay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh9Kli3vpo) about Miyazaki and the 'technological sublime'.

Kortina

Mitch, musician, next door neighbor in Brooklyn, who just happened to go to the same high school as me in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mitch

Carlos and Tenzin, in an empty park in the rain, whispering sweet nothings to each other as I took this picture.

Carlos and Tenzin

[Ross](https://www.instagram.com/ross_carvill/), illustrator from Ireland, wearing his 4th hand embroidered hat and making his 5th, which will not have a killer animal like the others.

Ross

Skye, printmaker and gallerist, who just moved her [gallery](https://www.instagram.com/skyegalleryaspen) from Aspen to New York, walking Orion at Fort Greene.

Skye

William, who has co-owned [Le Fanion](https://lefanion.com/) for 35 years, an incredible shop of Provençal ceramics and antique French furniture. And the Mister Sunday season opener.

William

Sandra from Uganda, tennis coach at the Marcy Playground, and the Kings County Tennis League, helping kids in Brooklyn public housing play tennis.

Sandra

[Grant](https://grantrossi.com), barista, live jazz saxophonist, and maker of soundscapes that swirl and spread like sea foam.

Grant

Hyson at his morning pull-up scaffolding station.

Hyson

Hector, who lost four fingers on his left hand, but still plays the congas for dancing passerbys on Clifton St.

Hector

'[Jaded](https://www.instagram.com/ohsojaded_tattoos), like don't be', who tattooed her own waist last month while watching The Fifth Element.

Jaded

Pete, on the phone in the sun in Puerto Rican South Williamsburg. And half the Maven team, taking a stretch break on day 1 of our Spring '24 hackathon.

Pete

Ny, who gave birth to Luna, unmedicated, in their apartment in Prospect Heights. And Jesse, who kept the water in the living room swimming pool at exactly 95°F.

Or, who hates to sit, but sits so elegantly, on a cool weekend morning in his Bed Stuy backyard.

Angelica, pole-dancer, social worker, who I often see from the stoop as she's walking to the gym, waiting for a bagel at Greenberg's Bagels.

Angelica

[Rom](https://www.instagram.com/rombarn/) and friends, hanging up 12 foot vinyl prints for an upcoming photo exhibit about the superhero kids at a Colombian adoption home.

Jack, hitting a 4x180kg deadlift PR at the Murder of Crows in Crown Heights.

Jack

Vanina, finding a release, letting the storm pass, and heading home from Hell's Kitchen.

Vanina

A portrait of the artist a few months before he becomes a father.

Shreyans

[Kara](https://www.instagram.com/kaaarraaaa/), visiting from 45 minutes outside LA, who made her own jewelry (except the Vivienne Westwood orb which was a gift to herself), in the stairway leading up from Broadway-Lafayette.

Kara

Mohan from Hyderabad, who tallied up Kate's trays of baby plants at Natty Garden.

Mohan

Krikor, minutes before marrying the lovely Iryna, at St. Gregory The Enlightener Armenian Church.

Krikor

An anonymous orthodox kid, taking calls on his flip phone and doing loops of Fort Greene park on his electric Citibike. And Shaunak from UPenn, still the fittest of the bunch, who I saw after 14 years, but it felt like no time had passed.

Anon

Back in Brooklyn with the Yemeni bodega boys, Laith, and his little brother, Baba.

Laith

Cherri, who finally has pictures of herself at work, landscaping a Kensington home. And Patrick, singer-songwriter, who got me to articulate why I like photographing people at work.

Cherri

Luke, on his last day at Los Mochis in London, before he heads off to cook on a yacht in the Mediterranean, during a short break before service begins. And Seema from Darjeeling with her brother, who teased her and convinced her to be photographed.

Luke

Four cousins (once removed) and an old friend. Ruchi, Rini, Raghav, Aayush - my cousin's kids, grown up and making their way in London, at dinner at Dishoom. And Rahul from high school in Jakarta, a fresh UK permanent resident, stepping into week one of a sabbatical.

Ruchi

Zoe from Berlin, at the Palais de Tokyo, listening to the amplified electrical impulses of plants.

[Caroline Simonds](https://vaudevisuals.com/caroline-simonds-a-hard-act-to-follow/), who has been clowning around the world for decades, from the streets of the West Village and Paris in the 70s to childrens hospitals across France with her [troupe](https://www.leriremedecin.org/nous-connaitre/equipe/les-clowns.html) today. She and her friends sat next to us at the Chinese restaurant, Mala Boom, shared stories of the general strike of [1968](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68), and Caroline showed us some incredible photos of herself over the decades, including some by [Boubat](https://www.artnet.com/artists/edouard-boubat/)

Caroline

[Noé Wodecki](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10061242/), with his expressive face and exuberant energy, shooting scenes for a film about up-and-coming French actors at the top of Parc de Belleville. Plus, the cutest band of friends, Kate at 18 weeks, and Tanya.

Noé

Sophia, fresh off a 12 hour flight from Bangkok, right into a 19th century salon that had never seen colors like hers. Plus, a woman intently reading '[The City of Joy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Joy)' from a free little library.

Sophia

Dierdre, who said she would never describe herself as elegant, while looking quite elegant at the Picasso Museum.

Dierdre

Kate, in Suzanne Valadon's studio in Montemartre, across the garden from Renoir's, dreaming of a studio of her own.

[Shakil](https://www.instagram.com/shakilsolanki_studio) from Cape Town at the Madame Grès x Alaïa exhibition at the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation.

Shakil

[Ida](https://www.instagram.com/idasandstorm/), back in Paris after a year away, writing at Bonjour Jacob.

Serge, who did not speak a word of English, at the Jardin du Luxembourg, and Guy, reading a biography of Adolf Hilter by John Toland.

Serge

Antoine, our server, taking a break outside the Japanese curry spot on Rue de Pont aux Choux.

Antoine

Sahil, chasing an elusive Nadal across the clay circuit, at the Monte Carlo Masters quarter finals, with Djokovic and De Minaur in the background.