if you’ve lived in a big city, you know.

They Contain so many worlds unto themselves that You could live in one your whole life and still be finding something new about it right up until the day they take you out of your astonishingly rent controlled apartment on a stretcher.

layer upon layer upon layer of lives lived on top of each other, all separate threads weaving into a massive tapestry you would have to be thousands of feet up in a sky you may or may not be able to catch glimpses of throughout your day to fully appreciate.

these photographs capture that sordid glory in moments ranging from the grandly impersonal to the specifically intimate.