My New York photographs are ready from the lab (Analogue Wonderland). I have re-fallen in love with my 35mm film camera, a Fujica STX-1. I bought it almost 30 years ago when I was doing my art foundation course, inspired by Tim Rundle, now a Principal Lecturer at Nottingham School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University, one of the most inspiring and influential individuals of my career.
For my trip I used Kodak Ultramax 400. I did some research into colour photography and particularly liked Saul Leiter, whose work I hadn’t encountered before. A lot of very flat, almost two-dimensional colour photographs that have a strong composition and layout and almost feel like paintings. I also really like Joel Meyerowitz’s work. This link is colour street photography. The quality, colour and composition are all really evocative.
I took most of my photographs on the Brooklyn Bridge. I was there on my last day, by chance it was golden hour, the light was amazing and all of the photographs, both on film and on my iPhone have a particular quality, which I’d never really understood but is what makes golden hour warm and special. I also have an almost identical photograph of Rodin’s The Thinker from Columbia University, even the focus is the same.
Brooklyn Bridge, 2025. Photo: Sara Nesteruk
Brooklyn Bridge, 2025. Photo: Sara Nesteruk
Brooklyn Bridge, 2025. Photo: Sara Nesteruk
‘The Thinker’ by Rodin. Photo: Sara Nesteruk