About Tria Giovan’s photo book “Loisaida”

Tria Gio­van is now an acclaimed New York pho­tog­ra­ph­er spe­cial­iz­ing in pho­tograph­ing inte­ri­ors, trav­el, food and peo­ple, her images have been fea­tured in trav­el, archi­tec­ture, inte­ri­or design, fash­ion mag­a­zines etc. She was born in Chica­go but grew up in the Vir­gin Islands. It was 1984 when Tria Gio­van land­ed in New York and found an apart­ment on the Low­er East Side, in a ten­e­ment build­ing on Clin­ton Street.

About “Perfect Strangers”, a street photography book by Melissa O’Shaughnessy

Melis­sa O’Shaugh­nessy is no stranger to the street pho­tog­ra­phy com­mu­ni­ty, she is a mem­ber of UP Pho­tog­ra­phers, is fea­tured in the street pho­tog­ra­phy bible “Bystander: A His­to­ry of Street Pho­tog­ra­phy” with two won­der­ful pho­tos, and most recent­ly in the anthol­o­gy “Women Street Pho­tog­ra­phers” edit­ed by Gul­nara Samoilo­va and pub­lished by Pres­tel. It was about time she pub­lished her first mono­graph, which Aper­ture thank­ful­ly took on in 2020 with “Per­fect Strangers — New York City Street Pho­tographs”.