Windows by Dave Krugman

Dave Krugman finds company in lit windows.

The Brooklyn-based street photographer has spent years wandering New York after dark, drawn to the glowing rectangles that punctuate the city’s facades. His project WINDOWS // NYC captures these domestic portals — cat beds pressed against glass, curtains half-drawn, holiday decorations still hanging in February — each one a fragment of someone else’s existence made briefly visible.

“New York, despite being so densely populated, can often be a lonely place. By documenting the individuality and variation of these windows, and then sequencing them into randomised grids, we’re able to recreate the sense of belonging and sonder that one feels while wandering the storied streets of this beautiful metropolis.”

“Sonder”, the vertiginous awareness that every stranger carries a life as complex as your own. Krugman’s grids transform isolated glimpses into something collective. A hundred windows become a hundred lives, and suddenly the loneliest city feels like a neighbourhood.