Washington Park

Washington Square Park is the living room of Greenwich Village — a place of street musicians, chess players, students and pigeons, shaded by some of the oldest London plane trees in the city. The arch presides over it, but the life of the park happens out on the paths.

Photographed May 2013. A couple walks away down a dappled path while pigeons scatter across the foreground. In black and white the broken light through the planes becomes the subject — an ordinary, perfect afternoon in the square.