“A lot of my images are from Grand Central station for a project I did,” says reader Bill Antin. “I literally lived in the station for a year taking these images. It was my senior year photo thesis at the school of Visual Art in NYC. I spent many days and nights all over the station watching the people that were either commuters or who had no place else to go. I slept many a night on the waiting room benches. I’ve never experienced such a fufilling experience.
“My life course changed quite a bit in my later life. My photography went on just in an opposite direction. I worked as a professional photographic printer and retoucher for six years in NYC. I printed photographic gallery shows exclusively. I’m 70 years old and I’m looking to get my work seen before I pass away.”
If this is you or anyone you know waiting for a train or not in Bill’s pictures, please get in touch. In the meantime, let’s imagine the stories between…
If like Bill – and his pictures of life at New York City’s Grand Central Station – you’d like to share your photographs with us, please get in touch.
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