A podcast about subway photography

Anton Nimblett

Anton Nimblett’s subway photographs appear on his Instagram account @antononwatch. He took many of them while commuting to and from the Bushwick family shelter that he manages. Born in Trinidad, Anton is also the author of the short story collections Sections of an Orange and Now/After.

Here are some photographs we discussed.

The first photograph Anton posted on Instagram, captioned Color in Harmony:

Black woman leaning on shoulder of white man in the corner of a subway car

Taken at the Chauncey Street J stop:

A woman walking down the staircase of the elevated subway at Chauncey Street on the J line on a winter day with dirty snow at the bottom

Red-handed

A woman with long braids sitting on a blue subway seat staring at the camera. She is drinking a soda and holding a McDonald's bag and wearing red boots

Borderless transit

Three photographs Anton took of his shoes:

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A pair of feet in white shoes straddling a yellow arrow pointing forward; two more arrows pointing to sides, on the fake terrazzo floor of the subway
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A woman on the Franklin Avenue shuttle

Father and son:

Also:

I interviewed Anton at the Brooklyn Public Library on June 3, 2023.

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