Frank Dobbs

Frank Dobbs is a street photographer who lives in a townhouse that shares a party wall with the Holland Tunnel.

He has been a scholar of Ancient Greek, a financial analyst and a real estate investor.

He shoots with a Nikon D3s and a Canon 1Ds mark iii.

His purpose is to show the poetry of the street and moments of hidden grace masked by the flow of time.

He lives sandwiched between the spot where Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of the Great American Cities and SOHO, where inner city regeneration began after the defeat of Rober Moses proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway was defeated. (It would have been 100 feet from his house.) This whole section of Manhattan has been transformed, first by artists, then by wealth, but always a kind of wealth that respects esthetics and history. The combination of art, wealth and esthetics has led also to hordes of shoppers and tourists, some of whom add to the allure of the neighborhood, where, basically, the styles the world will dance to are first adopted.

Having grown up in the East Village in the 50's and 60's and watched its decay, and brief incandescence, he finds this all immensely heartening and amusing.

Lesser neighborhoods and cities around the world are echoing what began in this small corner of the world's greatest city.