#2014-2018

The ultimate metropolitan flaneur, Kordas roamed the streets of the Big Apple, camera in hand, in search of the lonely yet extraordinary citizens that make New York what it is. For Kordas, the city is the ultimate playground — a photographer’s paradise where the next shot can be found on the following street corner, the second carriage on the subway, or on a rain soaked basketball court you walk past on your way home. ‘The New York Chronicles’ reflects some of the encounters that Kordas experiences in the city: from interactions with his local Ukrainian supermarket cashier to the lost people he speaks to on dating apps, to the Uber driver who confides to him in Spanish during a ride through the city. Attracted to those on the peripheries of society, he is confronted with isolation on many levels.

Then and then (2014 vs 2018)

I might try to ease this trip down old pictures lane by re-drawing (kind of...) things. I liked having a timeline of my art here, but it’s hard to put it back five years later, next to more recent things. There’s a lot of stuff I haven’t looked at in a long while that seem wonky in parts.

But it is nice to see a difference. I can’t say it’s necessarily better in every way (I couldn’t be bothered to do it in pencil again, for example), but I have moved somewhere.

Red Carnations.