The city does not perform for the camera. It simply continues.

There is a particular kind of photography that chases the extraordinary, the disaster, the spectacle, the moment history turns on its axis. Tapia is not interested in that photography. He is interested in the Tuesday afternoon. The woman buying food from a cart on a gray Brooklyn morning. The three friends on a park bench who have matched their coats to each other without realizing it. The drummer in Washington Square Park playing shirtless in November because the music demands it.

The City Unscripted is a collection built from the texture of everyday urban life. The small rituals, the accidental compositions, the moments of joy and absurdity that the city produces in abundance and most people consume without a second glance. Shot entirely on film across New York and London, these images carry the warmth and grain of a medium that slows you down, that forces a kind of commitment that digital photography does not require.

To photograph the ordinary with this much care is itself a political act. It says, this matters. The food cart matters. The cat in the backpack matters. The dog in the silk dress at the Lunar New Year parade absolutely, unequivocally matters. Tapia sees the city not as a backdrop but as a living, breathing collaborator, and this collection is the proof.