// Behind the scenes. A photo and the story behind it!

Alfred Stieglitz’s 1907 The Steerage is a photograph about social distance and visual order. Its real history is more complicated, and more useful, than the familiar immigration symbol.

William Anders made Earthrise from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968. The photograph changed more than our view of Earth; it changed the position from which we could think about home.

Dorothea Lange’s 1936 Migrant Mother is more than a symbol of the Great Depression. It is a story of an encounter, seven exposures, disputed memories, and the responsibility that begins when a real person becomes an image.

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1932 Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare is not compelling simply because a man jumps over water. It holds us in the fraction of a second before consequence.

Perhaps it all began in 2015 on the oceanfront at Long Beach, New York, when I photographed a memorial wall created by local families and children. A hurricane had taken almost everything away. The people who loved living there rebuilt the entire waterfront. One sentence in the middle of that wall reached me deeply: “Follow your dreams.” At that moment, I set myself a new goal.

Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Airport. When someone travels to a distant country for the first time, they usually pay close attention to details, the airport, the journey and the local rules. While sitting here at Liszt Ferenc Airport in Budapest, I will try to summarise the small practical details that have seemed important during my previous trips. I will continue writing on the flight to London and, because I have a three-hour wait at Heathrow, I may finish it there — or after

There are countless films and television shows about New York. Like every city, it has both beautiful and darker sides — and quite often you can see both at the same time in exactly the same place. If you are staying for longer than a few days, one of the first practical things worth considering is a local SIM card. There are several major providers to choose from, including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and MetroPCS.

The reason I am here goes back less than a year. My wife — who is both my biggest supporter and one of my toughest critics — told me she wanted to see me create an exhibition about something truly serious. If possible, she said, I should do it in New York. I told her that was easy to say, but without the right subject there was no point planning an exhibition. Then one day she found an article online about a Hungarian flag that had flown on the Statue of Liberty for around

I am still moving slowly with the editing of the interview we recorded two days ago, so I will not write about that yet. Cutting one hour of material without losing anything important is difficult — especially when nearly every story is interesting. Yesterday was dominated by the iPhone 7 launch here.

If you come to New York and eventually get tired of wandering among skyscrapers, Central Park is an essential stop. The rectangular park is famous for many things, including its squirrels. Because I spent much of yesterday evening here during a fashion shoot, I thought I would write about the park today. Yesterday I also streamed a street musician live from near Central Park. Today I will try to show some of my favourite locations through photographs.