NYC Above and Below the Pavement
  Above the Pavement
  Below the Pavement

 

In the Big Apple, city of steepled skyscrapers and hip-hop white noise, Serge Levy's lens is searingly trained on the real urban beat, the base line of it all: New Yorkers. Black. White. Rich. Poor. Be they euphoric, devastated, numbed out or in love. The provocatively rich, vastly diverse humanity that lies at the heart of the city is revered in his photographs. Within the graffiti scratched windows of the subway, upon the gum-spotted, glass glittered streets of Times Square and SOHO, he portrays the range of human experience found above and below ground of the city that never sleeps. Profoundly personal and deeply empathic, these sharply grasped images are at once love letter, social commentary, journal entry and declaration of self as Levy reveals the beautiful, complex blueprint of every day survival found in the faces, gestures and fleeting moments of New Yorker's lives.