Friday, I photographed an office space in Soho. The shoot went deep into the night–about 3am. The office was a product branding company called Anthem. It was designed by Charles Thanhauser (TEK Architects), who I’ve worked with for many years. The space was relatively small, but there was losts of design to work with.

Anthem

On Saturday, after recovering from the night before, I navigated over to Dumbo, Brooklyn to attend the opening of a curated group show called Mind the Gap. According to the invitation: “Mind the Gap examines the residual spaces of cities…” I was there to see the work of Elizabeth Felicella, an architectural photographer, who I knew had been photographing around JFK and LaGuardia airports. Her photographs were presented as an artist’s book with the pages folded out accordian-like on a long table. Not having seen her work before I was surprised to find that it was in black and white–everybody shoots color these days–and happy to be looking at beautifully made prints that were not attempting to dominate one’s senses through large scale or saturated colors. The pictures were of neighborhoods around the airports as well as indeterminate wasteland and watery landscapes.

Elizabeth Felicella
Smack Mellon gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn

Afterwards, I went to dinner with friends and had a pleasant conversation with Alex Villar, one of the artists in the show. My second Dumbo/Brooklyn expedition in one week.