New York City Anonymous: Photographs/2008-2018

In his signature style, Bagno assumes the perspective of a passerby, a shadowy apparition-positioned between, beside, behind-often depicting others as they turn away, hurry past, and wander off. For him, they are forms without identity-abstractions of fleeting encounters. With a sense of pathos for the mundane and sensitivity for the minutiae, he provides a nuanced glimpse into the city beyond myths. In his publishing debut, New York City Anonymous, Bagno reveals the poetics of anonymity, ephemerality, and the beauty in melancholy.