SHUT UP

Downtown Manhattan · 2020–2021

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For years, every window in downtown Manhattan was a stage — Prada, Dior, Louis Vuitton, the corner bodega. Then in 2020, they all went dark. Plywood replaced glass. The storefronts shut up, and so did the city.

Over 300 photographs, organized by street address, mapping every boarded storefront across SoHo, NoHo, the Bowery, Canal Street, and the Village. Three waves of plywood: COVID lockdown, the George Floyd uprising, and pre-election fear.

The Book

124 pages. Over 300 photographs, each captioned by street address. Designed with Allegra Misonznick-Davidson. Self-published, 2021.

The plywood storefronts make the city feel turned inside out, like you are living in the first stages of a construction site, before the workers apply sandpaper and sealant. And in many ways that is the era we are in. The future is yet to be determined.
Vanessa Grigoriadis · Foreword, 2021

Canal Street