Category: Episodes

Nina R. posts her subway photographs on her Instagram account @nina_at_nyc_subway. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Nina took many of these pictures while commuting from her home in Forest Hills to her job as an architect.

Ashley Van Buren, a writer and producer working in film, theater, and digital video, started taking subway photographs in 2011 and posting them on Tumblr at If You See Something, Say Something, named after the MTA‘s citizen antiterrorism campaign in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Willy Spiller is a Swiss photographer who came to New York in 1977, the year Ed Koch became mayor.

Rebecca Davis was a video producer for the New York Daily News in 2012 when she started taking candid photographs on the subway.

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.

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