Wides builds upon over ten years of exploring New York City and its environs through the facets of selective focus techniques. Wides’ lens gives us a swooping tour of New York’s spaces for the public and privileged in works that are both recognizable and disorienting.
Wides continues to explore the way physical phenomena are experienced by the senses and imagination through intuitive insight, states of awareness and visual thinking - manifestations that exist only in fleeting perception and which only her camera is capable of reproducing.
In 'Mannahatta,' Wides photographed the ever-shifting cultural and social landscape of the city with rare permission atop the new structures of its recent building boom. Art & Entertainment steps down from the post-financial crash’s now half-empty skyscrapers, and into the spaces created by, and inside the institutions that make up the city itself. With her recent switch from a traditional 4x5 view camera to an easily portable digital camera, Wides gains a new spontaneity and access to the city’s rooms and corridors.