Dan Ziskie: Cloud Chamber
“New York is known for the streams of people on the streets. For me, walking with a camera, it is as if these people are talking to me as they pass, trying to tell me something that I, in my limitations, can only make out in small fragments. And yet, even
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/01/dan-ziskie-cloud-chamber/
Street photography in 2018 is a challenge — we live in a heads-down, cell phone addicted world, where we push the anxiety and stress of city life into internal spaces. Photographer and American actor Dan Ziskie changes that description with his emotional photographs that use the streets as a stage set to create an exquisite opera of the human condition. His subjects play out personal dramas in photographs that are filled with angst, gesture, and visual confusion creating a form of kinetic theatre performed daily on the streets, all set to the sound track of jackhammers, taxi horns, and the rumbling of subways.