The Days Are Long & the Years Are ShortI set out to document the struggles and loneliness of a stay at home mother of three, but instead what I found was the passage of time. As the saying goes, the days are long and the years are short.

These are my parents

though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance

Failures teach us about life and the self in ways as powerful as – and far more confoundingly than – successes

A jazz bar near Washington Square

Mikiko Hara has her own way of secretly capturing the strangers who cross her path: a young man on the train

inspired by an evolving passion for esoteric philosophies

Each location is designated as an area of “concentrated poverty”—a US Census definition for places with poverty rates of 20% or higher

graphic aesthetic lives somewhere between product photography and documentary snapshot

Jack Nicholson

and dancers

roaming the seaside with an 8-by-10 camera

“It’s both examination and exhumation