Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #131. I was moved by the iron structures of train gating backed by the grim empty pizza place with staff member eating, eating and working, a nightime look of subway new york.

Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #130. I was moved by the iron structures of train gating backed by the grim empty pizza place with staff member eating, eating and working, a nightime look of subway new york.

Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #128. I was moved by the iron structures of train gating backed by the grim empty pizza place with staff member eating, eating and working, a nightime look of subway new york.

Mary Brownlee

This photo was taking on an open air platform somewhere on the L line.

This was first time seeing trains at rest. I kind of felt like it was where they go to die. I don't know that it says a whole lot about New York, per se. But just like people, you know the subways best as fast, loud, trains, but even they have to take a break sometimes.

Mary Brownlee

paulo nucci

this photo (another time) is the sequence of the first one that i post before (same place). sept 2010

paulo nucci

this photo (another time) is the sequence of the first one (same place). september 2010

paulo nucci

this photo (same place) comes with the next one (another time) and shows the ny melting pot on the subway. the second photo was shot a few minutes after the first one, in september 2010.

Jan Cieslikiewicz

I liked the slight surrealism of this scene. It was a year ago in Times Square.

Jan Cieslikiewicz

I took this photograph last month on the C train going to Bedsty. The subway, like the city, feels very different there from Manhattan and the better off parts of Brooklyn. A friend of mine said this picture reminded him of the 80s, sans graffiti. What initially caught my attention was the contrast between the atmosphere on that train and the message on the poster: "Improving non-stop. We're making improvements that you can see every day. Including a new way to tell you about improvements. Just look up."

Rudolph Vernaz-Colas

Apologies for sending so many pix, I've just read the posts underneath!
Okay this is the last one, taken w/ a cheap camera hence the grainy look, but I think it's a cool one and I don't think it needs any exolanations...

Rudolph Vernaz-Colas

Vertigo, loneliness, aging, things that are human related, NY's tough but then if this guy's here, chances are he's been here forever...

Rudolph Vernaz-Colas

Taken in May, 145th St station, she was waiting between the A and D platform, she has style, she's very NY and she blends perfectly in her surroundings.

Rudolph Vernaz-Colas

Halloween day, a little girl carries a plastic pumpkin down the subway stair, I don't know what it says about NY except that there's beauty everywhere if you look for it!

Rudolph Vernaz-Colas

It's about the energy in the city, and the 2 tones yellow and grey, part of a series taken in 2008.

Thanks

R

Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #152, remnant patches of the old subway system, showing valuable visual character of age.

Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #147, more blues, & gentle souls, improve my subway color experience.

Barrie Karp

Photo: ©Barrie Karp, 2011, 10/13/2011, #146, she was putting on lipstick, the silver pole separated them, they were engaged in animated conversation, I was trying to get the shot of both in focus, her on the left applying lipstick, the pole, and the young man on the right -- both in constantly compelling poses. I ended up with this face-to-face photo of the beautiful young man with a big hole in the knee of his pants, and face contact. The woman in blue on the left interests me too, especially the blue she brings, and also the mysterious, perhaps mischievous, look on her face. The trains have been so silverized plus those awful orange plastic seats, by which everyone is reflected usually on subway (filtering images poorly with light, not like those old photos of many people's submissions) -- unlike when Bruce Davidson took his fabulous richly-deeply-colored and hauntingly beautiful shots (I saw at Aperture tonight). I'm grateful for this opportunity to rethink subway photography -- also for the pleasures & lessons of looking at everyone's entries.

Francesca Huynh

Everyday on the subway, we encounter thousands of people in close proximity to one another but never see strangers interact. We see people we admire, aspire to be, and yearn to learn more about. The subway has its own culture and this is what this photograph taken in Brooklyn showcases. Taken a summer ago, this photo shows the morning commute on a Sunday. Two individuals are seen minding their own business and a tunnel shows the darkness that exists in our subway culture. With a city bursting of millions of residents, we as individuals are often reserved and lonely-- we hide our secrets and stories to ourselves. New York City has its light and dark; the subway represents this very idea.

paulo nucci

this photo (same place) comes with the next one (another time) and shows the ny melting pot on the subway. the second photo was shot a few minutes after the first one, in september 2010.

FELIPE VASQUEZ

This photograph was taken on November of 2010 at the entrance of an underground subway station. Sometimes we forget how insane it is that we can travel under the streets of New York City through these isolated and dark territories.