New York City, a city that always has fascinated me. I always question myself about how can so many people (according to Google: 8.406 million in 2013) can co-lived together in the city with so many possibilities and stories. One thing they do share, it’s the subway transportation. 34 Lines and serving thousand of people each day. One photographer decided to take a journey in the underground of NYC. Let’s follow Joao Unzer.

The subway, on the other hand, is one of the few places in town where social boundaries are dissolved. It’s where all races, religions and social classes meet and share not only the same space, but also the same situation.

The NYC Under the Ground project seeks to portray this sort of equality and democracy that the NYC subway proposes. It captures true spontaneous moments in the everyday lives of real New Yorkers (the kind you don’t see in magazines) in the only place in town where hot dog and stock vendors share the same bench.

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My two biggest achievements until this day was having my work added to the permanent collection archive at the Museum of Modern Art – MoMA along with having Amy Winehouse pose in front of a graffiti I made in her honor, she said “It’s f*cking ACE!”

About Joao Unzer

Joao is a Photographer from São Paulo currently based in New York, USA. Coming from a family of insurance workers, Joao has worked through many jobs but his passion for photography always has been his real passion.

For more information: http://www.joaounzer.com