‘Inside the sense of constant emergency that can seem to exist … you sometimes find a sense of privacy. As if you were for a moment alone. And that’s often where I look to take my picture,’ says Dan Ziskie. All photos: Dan Ziskie

‘Our actions reflect and bounce off each other, sometimes literally, on the streets of New York, leading to the constant evolution of events that would not happen otherwise, or elsewhere.’

‘For me, New York is not so much the story of people passing in their multitudes but rather the story told as if people in the multitudes were speaking to me as they pass, but in my limitations I can only make out a few things every now and then.’

‘New things, different things, happen only because of what happened just a moment before.’

Ziskie’s subjects appear lost in their personal dramas.

‘What is it the people are telling me? It is the story of what it is to be alive in New York, now.’