Podcast
Metropolitan Faces
Hosted by Blake Eskin · EN
A podcast about subway photography. Host Blake Eskin talks to other people who take pictures on the subway about their practice.
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Kali Handelman
Mar 501:10:04Tap to summarizeKali Handelman is an editor and freelance writing coach living in New York City. She has worked at The New School and NYU, and as a managing editor at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Kali started taking and sharing subway photos in the early days of Instagram, in 2011, under #NYcommuterphoto. Sign up for the Metropolitan Faces email newsletter. Follow Metropolitan Faces on Instagram. Rate and review Metropolitan Faces on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or Spotify. Music: Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Enrico Natali
Feb 1100:55:26Tap to summarizeEnrico Natali took pictures on the subway in 1960 while commuting to work as an assistant for fashion photographer Anton Bruehl. Natali later discovered Krishnamurti, gave up photography, and moved to Ojai, where he and his wife opened a meditation center. Sign up for the Metropolitan Faces email newsletter. Follow Metropolitan Faces on Instagram. Rate and review Metropolitan Faces on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or Spotify. Music: Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Eamon Dolan
Jan 2801:28:12Tap to summarizeEamon Dolan has been a book editor for over 30 years and the author of The Power of Parting. Raised by Irish parents in the Bronx, Eamon began posting subway photographs on his Instagram @eamondolan in 2015. Sign up for the Metropolitan Faces email newsletter. Follow Metropolitan Faces on Instagram. Rate and review Metropolitan Faces on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or Spotify. Music: Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Nina R
Jan 700:39:53Tap to summarizeNina R. posts her subway photographs on her Instagram account @nina_at_nyc_subway. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Nina took many of these pictures while commuting from her home in Forest Hills to her job as an architect. Sign up for the Metropolitan Faces email newsletter. Follow Metropolitan Faces on Instagram. Rate and review Metropolitan Faces on Apple Podcasts, Music: Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Ashley Van Buren
Dec 1701:16:37Tap to summarizeAshley Van Buren, a writer and producer working in film, theater, and digital video, started taking subway photographs in 2011. She named her project Subway Stories after a 1997 anthology of short films by 10 directors including her former boss, Jonathan Demme. Sign up for the Metropolitan Faces email newsletter. Follow Metropolitan Faces on Instagram. Rate and review Metropolitan Faces on Apple Podcasts, Music: Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Willy Spiller
Dec 301:48:55Tap to summarizeWilly Spiller is a Swiss photographer who moved into the Chelsea Hotel in 1977, the year Ed Koch became mayor. His subway photographs are collected in Hell on Wheels. Music: Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Rebecca Davis
Nov 1901:02:10Tap to summarizeRebecca Davis was a video producer for the New York Daily News in 2012 when she started taking candid photographs on the subway, using Hipstamatic filters and posting on Instagram, then Tumblr. She turned the year's subway photographs into a video flipbook called Commuters. With her brother, Rebecca directed and produced the 2023 documentary Join or Die, about the social scientist Robert Putnam.
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Anton Nimblett
Nov 501:10:58Tap to summarizeAnton Nimblett's subway photographs appear on his Instagram account @antononwatch. He took many of them while commuting to and from the Bushwick family shelter that he manages. Born in Trinidad, Anton is also the author of the short story collections Sections of an Orange and Now/After. Theme music is Express Train by Mr Eff, courtesy of Burning Witches Records.
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Trailer
Oct 800:02:17Tap to summarizeWelcome to Metropolitan Faces!
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