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The Fearless Girl statue stands hands on hips at night, facing the floodlit columns of the New York Stock Exchange.

Facing the Exchange

Wall Street, New York · March 2021

1D X Mark II, 16 millimetres, f 22, 20 seconds, ISO 400

Four feet of bronze against all that marble.

Late enough that Wall Street had emptied, which is the only time this corner makes sense. The Exchange is floodlit like a monument to itself; the statue in front of it is child-sized and stands like she called the meeting. I kept the frame vertical so the building could do its looming, and let the cold tones stay.