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Insightful portraits and perceptive interviews combine to explore a vibrant city and its people behind closed doors. New Yorkers presents over 70 intimate portraits of people in their apartments and studios captured in unique style by renowned New York street photographer Sally Davies along with their testimonies and tales, and their illuminating observations on what it means to be a New Yorker. Considering the origins and ambitions of its subjects, it captures an intoxicating glimpse of New York’s alternative scene before its actors are washed away on a wave of gentrification. A cast of drag artists, store owners, doctors, dog walkers, psychics, cab drivers, writers, artists, tattoo artists, gallery owners, photographers, film producers, designers, dancers and musicians (including such legendary New Yorkers as Laurie Anderson, Danny Fields and William Ivey Long) reveal the diversity, eccentricity, creativity and humanity at the heart of this iconic city. AUTHOR: Sally Davies is a street photographer whose works are in the Museum of the City of New York and the NYC 9/11 Memorial Museum. She is the author of the acclaimed McDonalds Happy Meal project (1.5 million online hits) and her archive is part of the Downtown Collection of Fales Library at NYU. She took Alan Ginsberg’s old apartment when she moved from Canada to New York in 1983, and she still lives in the East Village with her dog Bun. 77 colour photographs