Susannah Ray: A Further Shore

Inspired by the boundless humanism in Walt Whitman’s poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Susannah Ray has developed a new series of photographs on the waterways of New York City. In his poem, Whitman calls out to the tides, the gulls, the ferry passengers, the light, the clouds, the ships, the sailors, the waves, the cities on the far shore. In his eyes, all humans are divine, their reflected faces anointed by “fine spokes of light” in the passing waters. At the Bronx Museum, Ray will present a selection of images captured specifically in the Bronx.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.