Slices of Time: Street Photography Podcast
Oct 29, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
Today, I’m joined by Neil Selkirk, a New York photographer. He just published his book, Why Photographs? He worked together with some legendary photographers like Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus. Show…
Neil SelkirkGuest
Frederic PaulussenHostAnd I think there's a very interesting project he did at the start of the century, I think it was 2001 or two.
Which I think is, it's studio photography, but at the same time, it's also street photography.
Because I'm going to explain that the concept may be just how I experienced it, maybe.
So it's basically, you photographed 1,000 people on, I read somewhere, two days, but that seems crazy to me.
The whole area of Times Square in New York, which is a sort of tourist epicenter of New York, was being rebuilt.
And he said, okay, so all these construction sites are going to have huge fences around them.
Why don't we decorate the fences with portraits of people who would normally be seen on the street there? And so he came to me.
We had two or three or four nice young people approaching people as they walked by and said, you know, we're doing this wonderful project.
We'd love to take your picture because we're going to make posters and put them up all over the place.
So they would then lead the person who was sort of baffled but interested to a table where they would sign a release.
And I think there's a very interesting project he did at the start of the century, I think it was 2001 or two.
Which I think is, it's studio photography, but at the same time, it's also street photography.
Because I'm going to explain that the concept may be just how I experienced it, maybe.
So it's basically, you photographed 1,000 people on, I read somewhere, two days, but that seems crazy to me.
The whole area of Times Square in New York, which is a sort of tourist epicenter of New York, was being rebuilt.
And he said, okay, so all these construction sites are going to have huge fences around them.
Why don't we decorate the fences with portraits of people who would normally be seen on the street there? And so he came to me.
We had two or three or four nice young people approaching people as they walked by and said, you know, we're doing this wonderful project.
We'd love to take your picture because we're going to make posters and put them up all over the place.
So they would then lead the person who was sort of baffled but interested to a table where they would sign a release.
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