14th Street, New York  -  The Russian cowboy and other stories

Portraits of my neighbours on 14th Street, my street in New York where I lived from 1990 to 2004, between Second and Third Avenue. 

When I moved there I was intrigued by the diversity, the liveliness and eccentricity of the people inhabiting this one city block and its stores. 

In 1992 I started my photo essay “The Russian cowboy and other stories from 14th Street”, a long term portrait and documentary project about my street. A micro-cosmopolitan world village, so typical and atypical of New York City, an organism breathing life ...