SHUT UP
Downtown Manhattan · 2020–2021
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For years, every window in downtown Manhattan was a stage — Prada, Dior, Louis Vuitton, the corner bodega. Then in 2020, they all went dark. Plywood replaced glass. The storefronts shut up, and so did the city.
Over 300 photographs, organized by street address, mapping every boarded storefront across SoHo, NoHo, the Bowery, Canal Street, and the Village. Three waves of plywood: COVID lockdown, the George Floyd uprising, and pre-election fear.
The plywood storefronts make the city feel turned inside out, like you are living in the first stages of a construction site, before the workers apply sandpaper and sealant. And in many ways that is the era we are in. The future is yet to be determined.
Vanessa Grigoriadis · Foreword, 2021
246 Broadway
Lower Manhattan
235 Canal St
Canal Street
235 Canal St
Canal Street
187 Centre St
Canal Street
148 Lafayette St
SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
1 Crosby St
SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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Hudson Square
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Hudson Square
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Hudson Square
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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Hudson Square
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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Bowery
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Little Italy
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Little Italy
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Little Italy
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Bowery
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Bowery
2 Prince St
NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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NoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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West Village
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
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SoHo
1 5th Ave
West Village
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West Village
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West Village
72 5th Ave
Union Square
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Union Square
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Union Square
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Union Square
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Union Square
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The Book
124 pages. Over 300 photographs, each captioned by street address. Designed with Allegra Misonznick-Davidson. Self-published, 2021.
“…a riot is the language of the unheard.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Stanford, 1967
