SALLY DAVIES
Portraits of New Yorkers at Home

These portraits are excerpts from my book "New Yorkers."
Each photo captures a poetry of place, featuring natural and artificial light, and a range of anonymous figures within the built environment. In these portraits, you will meet waitresses, musicians, cab drivers, painters, teachers, shopkeepers, writers, designers, producers, parents, among others. Young and old, casual and formal; they pose in cramped kitchens and elegant living rooms, surrounded by the souvenirs of living. These photographs speak to what all New Yorkers understand— to live in this city is to embrace struggle, sacrifice, love, and change. This book went to print during a pandemic that stopped the world as we knew it. We were in our homes for hours on end, adapting to new habits, while thinking and feeling deeply about where and how we live.

Author
Sally Davies is a photographer and the author of two books New Yorkers and California Dreamers. She is also the photographer of the acclaimed McDonalds Happy Meal project (1.75 million online hits).  Her photographs are in the permanent collection at the Museum of the City of New York (her street photographs and the entire collection of portraits from the book New Yorkers) and the NYC 9/11 Museum. Her photo archive is now housed in the Downtown Collection of Fales Library at NYU. Her photographs have been featured in the New York Times, PDN online, The Huffington Post, Photolife Magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Post.
Sally has exhibited twice at the Museum of the City of New York. In 2020 her street photography was included in “From Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious,” and in 2023 her New Yorkers at home portraits were included in “New York Now: Home.”
She took Allen Ginsberg’s old apartment when she moved from Canada to New York in 1983, and she still lives in NYC with her dog Bun.

Website
sallydaviesphoto.com

Instagram
@sallydaviesphoto

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