Navid Baraty's Hidden City Fractures Manhattan Through Glass Reflections
Photographer Navid Baraty's series 'Hidden City' captures Manhattan's glass facades as reflective surfaces that distort and layer the cityscape. Shooting from skyscraper tops, Baraty reveals how streets, skylines, and blocks are reprojected onto building envelopes, creating suspended urban compositions where the grid shifts vertically and familiar elements reorganize according to light and angle. Traffic and pedestrian activity register as faint spatial traces. The project reconfigures Manhattan's dense geometry into abstract patterns of windows, shadows, and structural lines, presenting the city as a system of overlapping spatial readings.
Key facts
- Navid Baraty is the photographer of the Hidden City series.
- The series focuses on Manhattan's glass facades and their reflective properties.
- Baraty photographed from the tops of Manhattan skyscrapers.
- Reflections reproject streets, skylines, and blocks onto building surfaces.
- The urban grid appears to shift vertically in the reflections.
- Traffic and pedestrian activity are translated into faint spatial traces.
- The project reveals patterns of windows, shadows, and structural lines.
- The series was published on designboom via their DIY submissions feature.
Entities
Artists
- Navid Baraty
Institutions
- designboom
Locations
- Manhattan
- New York City
- United States