New York at its Core

Joseph Michael Lopez explored his home town for the first time using digital and in colour, for the new permanent exhibition, New York at its Core, at the Museum of the City of New York. The curators spent five years working on the exhibition that reveals the four hundred year history of the east coast metropolis. The exhibition is divided into three segments – Lopez’s photographs are found in Future City Lab, the section dealing with the prospects for development in New York. In his Neighborhood Spotlights series, the Leica photographer presents the particular challenges for the individual city districts, adding a human touch to the maps, drafts and statistics shown in the exhibition.