Concrete Saints

Concrete Saints

Concrete Saints

(Category)

Editorial

(Year)

2026

(Location)

Lower East Side, NY

(Client)

Ostrich Quarterly

Concrete Saints, cover photograph

Eight pages for a quarterly on the people who keep the city standing.

Eight pages for a quarterly on the people who keep the city standing.

Eight pages for a quarterly on the people who keep the city standing.

Working light

The brief asked for monuments. We photographed hands, boots and doorways instead, in the light each person already worked under.

No strobes, no stands. Just a long lens, patience and a lot of coffee shared on stoops.

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New York, NY / 40.7128 N 74.0060 W

New York, NY / 40.7128 N 74.0060 W

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