Emiliano Granado is interested in what photography looks like—not the final product but the process and the context in which pictures are taken. For the past few years, he has been shooting candid photographs of other people taking photographs, lost in the moments they are working to record. What do people deem worth remembering? What are they seeing, and what are they trying to accomplish? He says that it all boils down to goals of the person behind the camera: “I take photographs with a different intent than my mom does when she's visiting the Grand Canyon, you know?”
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Our Local Correspondents
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.
By Adam Iscoe
Profiles
Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a Bar
Since leaving “Top Chef,” Lakshmi has found herself in a period of professional uncertainty. What better time to try standup comedy?
By Helen Rosner
Annals of Gastronomy
A Martini Tour of New York City
My month of vermouth-rinsing and fat-washing.
By Gary Shteyngart
Our Local Correspondents
Donald Trump Is Being Ritually Humiliated in Court
At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.
By Eric Lach