Happy May Day.

NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice, @juliesulabor.bsky.social, speaking at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration. Garment workers have been at the forefront of the fight for economic justice. #documentaryphotography Washington Square Park, Manhattan, New York. March 25, 2026.

City, city. #photography #cityscape Lower Manhattan, New York. September, 2019.

Adventures in textiles — a trip to the fabric shredder with Camille Tagle of FABSCRAP. #photography Somewhere in New Jersey. September, 2019.

Camille Tagle, FABSCRAP Co-Founder, pushes a large bale of shredded fabric to the warehouse entrance. Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York. September, 2019.

A happy fashion designer gathers her selection of free fabric to take home after her volunteer shift at the FABSCRAP warehouse. #photography Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York. November, 2019.

A fabric swatch being removed from its swatch card. The fiber composition of the fabric will determine what happens to it next — whether it will be recycled, downcycled, or reused. #documentaryphotography Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York. September, 2019.

FABSCRAP warehouse. #photography Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York. September, 2019.

Founder of FABSCRAP, Jessica Schreiber, surrounded by bags of sorted fabric scraps. Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York. September, 2019.

Reclaimed fabric. #photography #monochrome

Buttons removed from clothing samples. #photography #fujifilm

Commercial textile waste shredded into fibers. #photography

No. 🥶

Wishing all of the athletes a successful Olympics! 💙💛🖤💚❤️

“Every independent journalist is kind of every person for themselves,” Georgia Fort told CJR. In the piece she describes the challenges of documenting without any collective, independent support. “Not having that type of infrastructure is hurting independent journalism.” ⬇️

“Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we’ve been.” ~ Excerpt from “For Renée Nicole Good, Killed by ICE” by Amanda Gorman

“A closer exploration of severe weather patterns in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century Europe readily illuminates correlations between extreme climate conditions and extreme human behavior and yet, as this essay contends, such a parallel is only the beginning…”

Bye Babe. 💙💛

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“An image must be transformed by contact with other images as is a colour by contact with other colours. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.” -- Robert Bresson

Let’s go.

New York is not for sale. ❤️

Nothing is spookier than a future forged by billionaires. Get out there NYC. Halloween pigeon stickers today! 🎃 #vote

Members of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition marched in this year’s Labor Day Parade to recognize the impact of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. After that tragedy, New York State's labor laws were transformed due to the tireless efforts of factory worker activists and suffragists.

Last night's lights. #eastcoastkin

"So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart." ~ Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate at the time of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite public support for unions increasing in recent years in the U.S., union membership is still in decline — even in New York, which generally has higher union density than a majority of the country. 🧵 slu.cuny.edu/wp-content/u... #documentaryphotography

Those who follow this account may be familiar with the “Fashion Act,” a bill introduced in the NY State Legislature back in 2022 that has since been widely debated in the fashion industry. It may be less known that the bill was proposed by the winner of another stunning NY primary election upset. 🧵

It's Primary Day in NYC. Local elections are a great opportunity to volunteer, meet people and — in New York — impact a few million lives. While national events feel out of control, make a difference at home. #ActOutside Photo taken October 31, 2020. Brooklyn, New York. Make Fashion Not War.

🥂 To light jackets in June.

These are bales of discarded clothing in a New Jersey warehouse run by a collection service that manages donation bins. The photo, taken last summer, shows just one row of several aisles piled high ready to be transported. Bales of new donations will be packed and stacked just as high the next day.

"You Won't Break My Soul." #HandsOff Protest. 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York. April 5, 2025.

"All I'm askin' is for a little Respect." #MayDay #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

Shoutout to the Subway DJ for bringing so much positive energy to these occasions. #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

"Hands Off Our Future." #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

"I Will Survive." #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

An America worth saving. #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

Keep those spirits up. 💜 #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

Hometown chant, the remix. #HandsOff Protest. 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York. April 5, 2025.

"Get Up Everybody and Sing." #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

"We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore." #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

The hometown chant. #HandsOff Protest. 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York. April 5, 2025.

"Let's Get It Started." #HandsOff Protest. Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NYC. April 5, 2025.

"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." #HandsOff Protest. 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York. April 5, 2025.

'Tulip Day.' Union Square, Manhattan, New York. March 30, 2025. #photography

In the waning hours of the transatlantic alliance, the Europeans still came bearing flowers. 💜🌷 'Tulip Day,' courtesy of the EU. Union Square, Manhattan, NYC. March 30, 2025.

Rally for Ukraine. Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York. February 2022.

A protester rallying for Ukraine in front of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation. Manhattan, New York. February 2022.

"No, nor a fierce hurrah for what it does without choice, for following the light for the same reason the light follows it." ~ José Antonio Rodríguez, "Sunflowers"

Outside UNICEF in Manhattan, NYC. March 2022. #documentaryphotography