ARTIST STATEMENT
New York City is fluid, in flux, always changing, the past rushing the future. An ordinary New York street is like an onion with many layers. You peel one back to reveal yet another. You see what you bring to it. Photography is a way of selecting what you think is important and getting others to see, notice and consider it. It is a way of focusing attention. One of New York City's great stories is the Brooklyn waterfront. The narrative takes an idyllic landscape, turns it into an industrial powerhouse and then it twists in a brutal collapse. I began photographing the waterfront in 2007 as many development battles were already raging. I seek to tell the story of how Brooklyn's edge with the water will be redefined.

ARTIST BIO
Robin Michals is a photographer whose work has focused on Brooklyn for the last five years. Her series 'Toxi City: Brooklyn's Brownfields' was exhibited at the Brooklyn Lyceum in 2009. The work was also presented at 'Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and Development,' a conference at Kingsborough Community College. She is currently working on 'Abused and Reused: The Brooklyn Waterfront' and 'Castles Made of Sand: New York Harbor Before the Flood,' which is a look at the places predicted to be underwater in 2100 due to sea level rise.

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