‘Fly the Coop: New York Says Goodbye to Dinosaur’ by New York-based photographer Jared Thomas Tapy (@jaredtapy). An adjacent writer and archivist, Jared documents the streets, people, and neighborhoods of the city he calls home. His work frames a portrait of New York in the present tense.

“There’s something that happens when a city falls in love with a piece of public art. It stops being art and starts being a symbol. Dinosaur was that for New York. I was there on the last day not just to photograph a sculpture, but to document a city saying goodbye to something it didn’t know it needed. For each New Yorker, Dinosaur meant something different. A collection of ideas about one of the city’s most prominent members of society.”

‘Fly the Coop: New York Says Goodbye to Dinosaur’ by New York-based photographer Jared Thomas Tapy (@jaredtapy). An adjacent writer and archivist, Jared documents the streets, people, and neighborhoods of the city he calls home. His work frames a portrait of New York in the present tense. “There’s something that happens when a city falls in love with a piece of public art. It stops being art and starts being a symbol. Dinosaur was that for New York. I was there on the last day not just to photograph a sculpture, but to document a city saying goodbye to something it didn’t know it needed. For each New Yorker, Dinosaur meant something different. A collection of ideas about one of the city’s most prominent members of society.” | Milk Studios

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