NYC 04: Central Park Faces

Written By John Rash

Central Park, Manhattan, NY. 7/16/06.


©2006 Rash Photo
Sometimes when you stand in a crowd, looking around, the faces become the same. Blurring together, individuals assume a new collective identity. The crowd often becomes it's own beast. Living in the city must feel like this fairly often, and only rare moments of clarity remind us that we feel lost from our position in the belly of crowd. Here are a few faces, picked from a collection of many, captured on a Sunday afternoon in Central Park, Manhattan.

All images and words ©2006 Rash Photo / John F Rash.

John Rash

John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based in Oxford, Mississippi. John earned his M.F.A. in Documentary and Experimental Art from Duke University and B.F.A. in Art Education from UNC-Greensboro, and now works as Assistant Professor of Film Production and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. His documentary films and photographs often focus on topics of identity, counter-culture communities, social justice, and environment and have been shown in festivals and museums around the world. John has received multiple awards for his documentary works including the Soul of Southern Film Award from Indie Memphis Film Festival for Negro Terror, History+ Best Documentary Award from the North Carolina Museum of History for Our Movement Starts Here, and an Emmy nomination for his film about South Carolina-based photographer Sam Wang. John is also the founder of the Southern Punk Archive which aims to preserve the stories of DIY punk communities in the American South. In 2025, John was an Artist in Residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai and a resident artist at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN in 2022.

https://www.johnrash.com
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