16 Oct, 2023
In Conversation: Gun Roze on his series MANHATTAN 1982
In 1980, Gun Roze began regularly visiting a close friend who had moved to New York City. During these trips, he plunged headfirst into a vibrant culture that felt radically different from his experiences in Toronto. Fascinated by all that he saw, in 1982 Roze started making photographs of life at street level in Manhattan, creating an engrossing visual history which captures the daily (and nightly) rhythms of New Yorkers. Those photographs became the series MANHATTAN 1982.
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