Transportation
The Underground New York Public Library
A subway-hopping photographer memorializes reading riders on a Tumblr blog.
Ourit Ben-Haim enjoys reading on the subway. Other people reading. Over the past few months the New York City photographer has been hopping from train to train in search of people lost in a book, snapping a candid shot, and posting the picture to her Tumblr blog. She calls her work the Underground New York Public Library.
The idea began back in 2008 when Ben-Haim spontaneously snapped a candid shot of someone reading with her mobile phone. The self-described "street photographer" returned to the tunnels for more, this time wielding her trusty Canon 5D Mark II, and eventually developed the concept into a regular endeavor.