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Turkish photographer Adanalı captures rare Manhattan view
The young, New York-based photojournalist, who has been working with the Anatolia news agency since 2001, offers his images of the deserted streets of Manhattan in a mixed exhibition at the prestigious New York School of Visual Arts until Nov. 14.
Titled "Surface Tension," the exhibition brings together thesis work from the 2009 graduating class of the school's master of professional studies (MPS) in the digital photography department, and Adanalı has contributed to the exhibition with four pictures from his collection.
Adanalı's own collection, titled "Solitary Manhattan," includes black and white photographs of many landmarks of New York in moments of almost absolute emptiness, exposing moments that are almost impossible to capture in New York.
Adanalı, a graduate student at the New York School of Visual Arts, said: “Manhattan is the leading tourist destination in the world. New York is known as the ‘city that never sleeps.' Buses and trains operate 24 hours a day. It is near impossible to find an empty street in this city. People start going to work at five o'clock in the morning. There is a constant circulation of people at Times Square, Union Square, Wall Street, Bryant Park, 5th Avenue, Herald Square and many other locations. It was claimed that an estimated 200,000 lost their jobs and abandoned Manhattan after the financial crisis began in 2008. I started the ‘Solitary Manhattan' project with this background.”
Adanalı's photographs of empty streets, which were taken at the crack of dawn, are places normally visited by millions of people. Explaining how he managed to take these photographs, Adanalı said: “It was a bit difficult taking photographs of the most populated areas such as Times Square, 5th Avenue, Wall Street, Union Square and Grand Central at the crack of dawn without anyone being there. For my first attempt I went to Times Square, which is the most crowded location, on a weekend, Sunday before dawn. With the advantage of it being a Sunday, I waited a little while to seize moments of emptiness when people or cars were outside of the frame. I captured around 30 photographs of the island's most crowded points in emptiness by going to Manhattan every weekend for two months.”
Noting that the photographs are original and unmodified, Adanalı said: “The photographs have a shocking effect for most New Yorkers. Many people claim that it's not even possible for a moment like that to be experienced.”
Adanalı plans to continue the project with further shots and he already has over 100 photographs posted on his Web site. The project will be completed in 2010, and the young photographer said his “Solitary Manhattan” collection will eventually be made into a book.
Adanalı received the Turkish Photojournalists Association's Photo of the Year award for the photos he took at the 2009 Beijing Olympics and is currently the New York correspondent for the Anatolia news agency. Adanalı's “Solitary Manhattan” photographs can be seen at www.tolgaadanali.com.
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