Lately, I’ve been spending more time looking for the quiet pockets of New York - the small breaks in the noise where the city feels a little more human. This project focused on the subtle, often overlooked moments of calm that exist between the rush - those pockets of stillness where the city feels softer and slower. 

This series centers on a friend photographed in Central Park, moving through open paths and pockets of natural light. With no crowds pressing in and no urgency in the air, the park becomes a rare space where New York pauses. The natural light, unfiltered and honest, shapes each frame with a simplicity that feels grounding. These images reflect the quieter rhythms of daily life - the moments when someone can just be, without performance or pace. 

This project has become a way for me to observe and appreciate the gentler layers of the city: the way light settles onto a face, how breeze shifts through leaves, how someone looks when they finally slow down. Photographing these scenes has reminded me that even in a place as fast and dense as New York, there are moments of calm worth noticing - and capturing.