In the winter of 2009, I photographed the High Line in New York City, just six months prior to its completion and public opening. The assignment, which was commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, was focused both on the design of the elevated park by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and James Corner Field Operations, as well as the emergence of exclusive buildings that had sprung up beside it by architects including Zaha Hadid, Neil Denari, and Bernheimer Architecture. While the southern section of the High Line was nearly finished, the northern stretch was still a wild space of tangled brush, bird nests, and rusted train trellis.
