Luc Kordas
Photographer
Luc Kordas was born in Poland in 1984 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York City. He graduated with a master’s degree in Spanish Philology, and then taught English as a second language in Spain and England. He is a portrait, street, travel and documentary photographer and videographer who has been shooting the project‘The New York Chronicles’ in all boroughs of New York City.
His street work is primarily candids, and tends to single out subjects in a crowd rather than putting many subjects in the frame. Kordas works almost exclusively in black and white and favours the use of wide apertures.
His work has been published by the Guardian, Lens Culture, Huffington Post and Al Jazeera, among others. He was also published every week in the legendary New York paper The Villlage Voice until it went paperless in 2017.
Although he hails from Poland, Luc Kordas has made his home in New York City since 2014. It was that same year that he began a A long-term project, ‘The New York Chronicles’, photographing across all the boroughs of New York City. The latest fruits of this visual storytelling endeavours are in his new book, New York Unseen.
Although Kordas is not exclusively a street photographer – he’s also a highly accomplished portrait, travel and documentary photographer – his vivid (almost exclusively) black and white street images convey a range of emotions and a clear depiction of where he is.
