Snowflake photo by Tom Reeves displayed on an Apple iPhone billboard
on 35th St & 9th Ave near the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan, New York City | 2022
Honeycomb | New York | January 2022
One of ten winning photos in Apple's 2022 #ShotoniPhone #iPhoneMacroChallenge
"Besides combining her greatest skill and artistry in the production of snowflakes, Nature generously
fashions the most beautiful specimens on a very thin plane so that they are specially adapted for
photomicrographical study."
fashions the most beautiful specimens on a very thin plane so that they are specially adapted for
photomicrographical study."
—Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, 1922
Just do it with iPhone. —Tom Reeves
New York | October 2022
"Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me—
the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant."
the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant."
—Henri Cartier-Bresson
Forget the rules—does it draw you in? —Tom Reeves
New York | September 2022
“Creativity is just connecting things ...
The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
—Steve Jobs
Think multidisciplinary. —Tom Reeves
New York | April 2019
"Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment."
—Charlotte Joko Beck
Lifelong learning ftw. —Tom Reeves
Paris | June 2018
"The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection."
—Ann Lauterbach
Get the people going! —Tom Reeves
Burning Man | August 2007
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself.
Longest way round is the shortest way home."
Longest way round is the shortest way home."
—James Joyce
Do the work that must be done. —Tom Reeves
Thailand | October 2004
"The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation."
—Susan Meiselas
You're never alone. —Tom Reeves
New York | September 2020
"New York is a sort of anthology of urban civilization. The song that any city sings she sings. All that anybody can seek for that can be housed in steel and cement is here, and with it, never lost in all the city's drabness, respect for the striving, combative beauty-loving spirit of man."
—R. L. Duffus
New York, I love you. —Tom Reeves