![]() New York Waterways by Susannah Ray is published by Hoxton Mini Press.Įnjoyed this article? Like Huck on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. ![]() Bridges arc from shore to shore, steel longings drawn between boroughs, eternally crossing the tides below. ![]() Shoreline remnants tangle into fictive histories. Daylight shortens, the waters cool into icy silence. There, time moves according to season, ceaselessly circling back upon itself, eschewing the forward march of the grid.ĭaylight lengthens, the water warms and resounds with voices and motors. Bridges arc over the salmon-filled River Corrib, and a long promenade leads to the seaside suburb of Salthill, on Galway Bay, the source of the areas. These photographs ferry the viewer to the far reaches of the outer boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. The distant spires of Manhattan appear from across bays and harbours, rivers and creeks. Inspired by the unfettered humanism of Walt Whitman and by the shifting light and reflective waters of American Luminism, I have gathered these images of life upon and alongside New York City’s waterways. “Suspend,” he cries, celebrating these moments unmoored from the sure time of the city. All humans are divine in his eyes, their reflected faces anointed by “fine spokes of light” in the passing waters. Passionately, deliriously, Whitman calls out to the tides, the gulls, the ferry passengers, the light, the clouds, the ships, the sailors, the waves, the cities on the far shore. Walt Whitman, in his 1856 poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, ecstatically invokes New York City’s waterways. National guardsmen also fired tear gas at protesters hurling stones at the parliament building. Photographer Susannah Ray explores the shores and waterways that New Yorkers use all year-round to fish, swim, sit and daydream. Protesters later erected barricades and set tyres alight on two of the main bridges across the river Niger that runs through Bamako, according to AFP journalists, and entered the courtyard of state broadcaster ORTM.
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