Wijnanda Deroo
New York Night

1990
photography | c-print in frame
105 x 120 cm

Deroo made her name with photographs of landscapes and interiors from which people are absent.

Around the time that she moved to New York in 1989, she initially turned her camera on that city, including on a stretch of no-man’s-land along the East River in Brooklyn at night. Two examples from this series are in the collection of The Hague University of Applied Sciences, and they immediately make it clear how desolate and insubstantial ‘the city that never sleeps’ can actually be.