New York is home to over 8.5MM people. About 36% of the population is foreign-born, 64.4% have Hispanic, Latino, African or Asian origin, and as many as 800 languages are spoken across the city. This results in a tremendous cultural diversity, but also vast economic and social inequality that dissipates over the neighborhoods, where there is a clear anxiety for a group organization that brings some sense of similarity and belonging, but creates ideological barriers between people from different walks of life.
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.
With the project NYC Under The Ground the Brazilian photographer and artist João Unzer 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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