Series of Urban Landscapes - Queens

I'm working on a series of photographs that show the bleak poetry of the urban landscape. As the population of the city expands (8.3 million and growing!) and Manhattan becomes too full, real estate developers have trained their sights on Brooklyn and Queens. These areas traditionally were low-density and partly industrial, but are now home to many sleek glass high rise apartment buildings. I remember going out to photograph along the waterfront in Long Island City a few years back. The first time I went, there was a series of muddy lots. A few months later, there was a series of high rise apartment buildings. I was totally shocked. And I realized that many of the deserted areas I love are going to change. So I set out to capture them as they are now.

I approach them not in a strictly documentary fashion, but more in a poetic vein: how they feel at a certain time of day, how they look in certain weather conditions (I love snow!), how their loneliness and desuetude affect me.