My name is Ryan and I’m a New York City-based photographer & traveller.
Keats once wrote, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
Amen.
This Substack is my nod to that. To choosing a way of living that seeks out a deeper, emotional connection to beautiful places, things, and situations—whether that first, deeply-satisfying morning espresso, the joy of being lost in old world city, or a simple shaft of golden light on a beautiful face.
Think of this less like a newsletter and more like an ongoing series of slower-moving dispatches, postcards, and musings from wherever I find myself, each about the beautiful things that stop me in my tracks to photograph, to taste, to write.
Slower in pace; almost old-fashioned, even, in tone and timing. Decidedly not for the algorithm.
Instead? For connection, for living, for beauty.
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