A collection of exotic portraits and still-life images that embody tireless modern life + death at their most full and fragile. "We Buy Gold" is a series of urban collisions, coded objects, and social explosions.
We Buy Gold, Harlem, #1
New's Year's Eve, 2013/ 2014
Scarface Climax , Bar, Bronx
Harlem Vanitas, #1
Clubbed
All Seeing Eye, Queens, NY
Saints and Sinners, Nightclub, #1
Big John, Smoke #3
Andrew, Birthday, Lower East Side
Street Sleeper, Harlem
Joey, Chinatown, NYC
Joey, Chinatown 2
Masked Man, Midtown, NYC
Jason, Hotel, Columbus Circle
Personal Property, 123rd St., Harlem, NYC
John's Shelf Vanitas, Bronx, NYC #2
We Buy Gold and Diamonds, Bronx
Grand Central Station Dancers, NYC
John, Smoking, Full scale, Bronx, NYC
Saints and Sinners Nightclub, NYC
Benjamin, Newark, NJ
125th St. Station
Crossing, Harlem, NYC
Night and Fog, Central Park, NYC
Oasis Club, West Point, Mississippi
Twilight Tricolor, NYC
Nikki Johnson, photographer + social explorer
New York-based photographer Nikki Johnson's work is a combo of portraiture and self-portraiture and an ongoing series of documentary images from around the world.