When the photojournalist Jacky Chapman was a child she chanced upon a postcard that her father had sent to her grandparents while on Royal Navy duty in New York. On the back it read: “Late afternoon sunlight splashes over lower Manhattan skyscrapers as steamer is guided from pier by powerful tugboat”. The image beguiled Chapman and began an obsession with the United States that she honed as a teenager watching endless US cop shows and then as a photography student when she discovered the work of street photographers such as Garry Winogrand and Bruce Davidson.
Her MA studies in 1986 offered Chapman the chance to capture the streets of New York herself, armed with a Canon AE-1, black and white film and a couple of
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