A selection of images by New York City-based photographer Alexander J Rotondo. Photographing the found situations that he happens upon and occasionally reconstructing moments from life, Rotondo’s work often contains motifs that run throughout—sometimes prominent, he explains, and other times more subtle. With a process grounded in vernacular photography, he describes the varied range of intentions behind his image-making: “sometimes I just want to make a beautiful photograph and other times I want you to work hard and question what I’m trying to show you.”

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