Richard Sandler, CC Train, NYC, 1982

Richard Sandler’s photographs are dense—full of people, marks on walls, lines of buildings. They celebrate the hustle and bustle of two of America’s most thrilling cities (New York and Boston) and also the stresses of them, of so many people crammed into such a relatively small space. His The Eyes of the City opens next month at 515 in Los Angeles—in a decidedly more roomy and free-flowing city. Serge J-F Levy describes his work as capturing “the assaulting reality of living in heavily populated urban spaces”.