New York, NY

Chris Tham on 2021-07-29

I’ve always loved New York, from perusing coffee table photographic books about the city (I think those books made me want to be a photographer) as a child, to watching early Woody Allen films, and dreaming of attending an opera at the Met, visiting the various museums, Central Park and even browsing at Manny’s and hoping to bump into a famous musician.

Note

This article is part of our USA Film Retrospective series, featuring images captured mostly on film on budget cameras in the 1990s and early 2000s. The images have been scanned from film negatives (up to 30 years old) and then post processed to artificially increase sharpness. Please forgive us if they do not meet your expectations of photographic quality.

We visited New York in 1997 (yes, before Sep 11) and saw the World Trade Center, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island. Yes, we even visited Trump Tower. I once stayed at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel beside Central Park and fantasised I was in the cast of the movie New York Stories. We also browsed and shopped at the iconic stores such as Willoughbys for photography and Mannys for music (both sadly no longer exist). These photos are not meant to be representative of the city, just random ones that bring back the memories for me.

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Chris Tham is a co-founder of Visual Voyager Pty Ltd, the Principal Voigtländer Ambassador for Mainline Photographics and a Workshop Instructor for Mainline Photo Academy. She brings over 35 years of experience as a photographer to her role, starting with a Yashica rangefinder belonging to her dad, joining the Photography Club in school, and developing her own photos. More recently, Chris has been taking photos during her travels, and as a result has experienced some of the most interesting places in the world. Chris focuses on nature, street, and urban architecture subjects in her photography.

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