Vintage Optics — New York · Standard (Oct 30–Nov 1, 2026)

Part II of the Vintage Optics Masterclass series moves to Camera West Soho for three days in New York City, October 30 – November 1, working exclusively with standard focal lengths (40mm–60mm), a perspective that mirrors human vision: unembellished, immediate, and deeply cinematic. The program is about human proximity: stepping closer, waiting longer, and allowing the frame to breathe within the city’s natural rhythm.

Across late October’s fading light, the group moves through streets where daylight collapses quickly into shadow, storefront fluorescents, sodium-vapor streetlights, and passing headlights begin to define the image. Halloween brings a subtle distortion to the city: faces half-hidden, gestures heightened, the familiar made slightly strange. It is within this atmosphere that the program works, observing how lenses translate tension and ambiguity.