Michael Wilkins
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Times Square at night from kerb level: a black Chevrolet Suburban filling the foreground, a yellow cab behind it, towering billboards for muscles, vitamins and clothing lit in white, cyan and yellow, the NYPD station sign and pedestrians on a crossing.

Times Square, From the Kerb

Times Square, New York · February 2020

1D X Mark II, 16 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/250 of a second, ISO 800

Every surface selling something, and one that is not.

Times Square does not need help from a photographer; it needs restraint. I got low, let the black Suburban fill the bottom of the frame as something solid against all that light, and pointed up so the billboards stacked. The yellow cab is there because there is always a yellow cab. Everything here is trying to be looked at, which is why the one dark thing in the frame becomes the subject.