Sai Teja

Street · 20 photographs

New York

Place
New York City
When
Summer 2025
Frames
20
Camera
Sony A7 IV

Most of these frames were made over a few days around the Fourth of July: Midtown crossings, subway cars, strangers who stopped for a portrait, and a city that stayed out late for the fireworks.

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Lower Manhattan seen through the orange diamond mesh of a ferry railing.
No. 01 — Staten Island Ferry — 14:44 — f/13 · 1/250 · 42mm
People cross a Midtown street in bright sun as a yellow cab waits at the light.
No. 02 — 10:41 — f/3.5 · 1/320 · 28mm
A figure in silhouette walks under a theatre marquee of warm bulbs.
No. 03 — 10:47 — f/14 · 1/8 · 28mm
A man sits on a stone block looking at his phone, between office towers and flags.
No. 04 — 15:05 — f/2.8 · 1/250 · 42mm
A smiling shirtless man poses on a sunlit sidewalk.
No. 05 — 17:45 — f/2.8 · 1/160 · 39mm
A man in a red shirt and cap stands at a Times Square crossing under the Red Lobster sign.
No. 06 — Times Square — 19:16 — f/2.8 · 1/160 · 42mm
A young woman holds a pole on a train marked WTC, earphones in, looking up.
No. 07 — 13:25 — f/2.8 · 1/200 · 40mm
A man on a subway bench holds a small dog in a carrier on his lap.
No. 08 — 18:52 — f/1.4 · 1/500 · 35mm
Two people wait on benches in a long, white, empty station.
No. 09 — 21:22 — f/1.4 · 1/200 · 52mm
A performer in white face paint and a red dress embraces a man in a subway concourse.
No. 10 — 10:52 — f/2.8 · 1/160 · 28mm
A crowd spills across a street at dusk beneath bright shop signs.
No. 11 — 20:01 — f/1.4 · 1/640 · 52mm
A baby looks over a shoulder in a blurred, neon-lit crowd.
No. 12 — 20:03 — f/1.4 · 1/640 · 52mm
A child on someone's shoulders watches fireworks burst over the street.
No. 13 — Fourth of July — 21:48 — f/2.8 · 1/125 · 42mm
A couple embraces as fireworks light the sky beyond the crowd.
No. 14 — Fourth of July — 21:29 — f/2.8 · 1/125 · 42mm
A couple kisses in the street at night beside a crowd sitting on the curb.
No. 15 — 21:24 — f/2.8 · 1/125 · 27mm
A police officer stands by a red car as an ice cream truck glows behind him at night.
No. 16 — 21:32 — f/2.8 · 1/125 · 40mm
Three people talk closely on a late-night subway platform at 42nd Street.
No. 17 — 42 St — 20:09 — f/2.8 · 1/250 · 42mm

2021

Elsewhere

Three frames from a market, made in 2021.

Black-and-white street scene: men watch a vendor at a cart outside a jewellery shop.
No. 18 — 07:43 — f/5.6 · 1/13 · 75mm
A butcher sits in a green-tiled stall with meat hanging behind him.
No. 19 — 08:13 — f/5.6 · 1/80 · 75mm
Black-and-white view of a woman's feet in sandals walking on wet pavement.
No. 20